Diversity Action Plans will soon be required for phase 3 clinical trials and other pivotal studies of drugs and biological products conducted in the US. Are you ready for this requirement?
Responding to information requests (IRs) from FDA during review of a marketing application can be stressful. How do you survive the rollercoaster of requests? We have outlined useful tips and best practices for managing responses to IRs during FDA review of your marketing application.
Regulatory agencies like the FDA require substantial evidence of the drug’s effectiveness for its intended use and sufficient information to conclude that the drug is safe. However, flexibility is given in how the standard can be met given the challenges associated with the limited number of subjects available in rare disease.
FDA’s Benefit-Risk Framework is the presentation for communicating the assessment of the benefits and risks based on the therapeutic context, available evidence and uncertainties for the product in development.
To those of us who regularly create or review adverse event (AE) incidence tables for randomized controlled trials, it may come as a surprise that your typical AE incidence table can be misleading if data was combined from more than one trial. This is due to “Simpson’s paradox,” which, simply put, is the phenomenon that the mere grouping of data can introduce confounding or bias otherwise not present.
Dive into the complexities of GDPR compliance in clinical trials in Contract Pharma’s article, Understanding GDPR Compliance in Clinical Trials, an interview with Laura Gatavs, Head of Legal Department for Rho EU. Explore the nuances of when and where GDPR applies, grasp the basics of compliance – both at company compliance level and when negotiating clinical trial agreements – and uncover essential takeaways and best practices for clinical trial sponsors.
Biometrics teams can generate hundreds, if not thousands, of SAS programs throughout the drug development process. So how do you know which ones to submit to the FDA? And how do you go about submitting the programs?
As statisticians, we’re frequently asked to do power and sample size calculations from very thin data. Often, we’re given nothing but an ancient publication containing a few p-values, an occasional mean, and maybe a standard deviation (if we’re lucky). Back calculating something meaningful in these situations can seem intimidating, but it turns out that most standard sample size software can do the work for us when used unconventionally. We’ve outlined 2 such unconventional uses.
Innovation in early-stage studies presents the best opportunity to streamline the drug development process. Such designs may not only reduce costs and accelerate timelines but give us better flexibility to address the questions of interest in an increasingly evolving clinical development landscape.
The new European Union (EU) legislation regulating clinical trials harmonises the processes for assessment and supervision of clinical trials throughout the EU. It enables sponsors to submit 1 online application via a single platform (CTIS) for approval to run a clinical trial in several European countries, making the conduct of such multinational trials more efficient.
