The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a revision of its final guidance on “Application User Fees for Combination Products,” replacing guidance of the same name from 2005. The revision modernizes the guidance...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is all about hard science, and correlation of variables is not evidence of causation. To make a regulatory decision, FDA has long held that line, requiring evidence of actual occurrences...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently published its criteria for reporting on the use of real-world evidence (RWE) in drug and biologic submissions, as part of its commitments under the Prescription Drug User...more
On May 31, 2024, the FDA announced initiation of the Support for Clinical Trials Advancing Rare Disease Therapeutics (“START”) pilot program. The START program, led by the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (“CBER”)...more
On May 21, 2024, the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a warning letter issued to Akan Biosciences, Inc. (Akan) for unresolved inspection observations...more
Holland & Knight Health Dose is an in-depth weekly dose of legislative and regulatory insights to keep stakeholders abreast of happenings in Washington, D.C., impacting the health sector....more
In just the US, more than 100,000 men, women, and children are waiting for an organ transplant. According to the United Network of Organ Sharing, more than 6,000 people in the US die on an annual basis waiting for a matched...more
n March 15, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a paper titled “Artificial Intelligence and Medical Products: How CBER, CDER, CDRH, and OCP are Working Together.” This paper describes the FDA’s strategy for...more
On March 15, 2024, four of the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) medical products centers released a joint paper, titled “Artificial Intelligence & Medical Products: How CBER, CDER, CDRH, and OCP are Working Together,”...more
The Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), and Office of Combination...more
On March 15, 2024, FDA published a white paper titled “Artificial Intelligence & Medical Products: How CBER, CDER, CDRH, and OCP are Working Together” (the AI White Paper) on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) across the...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) uses warning letters to notify manufacturers that they have violated the FDA’s regulations or federal law. Manufacturers that receive warning letters must respond promptly, and they...more
FDA’s January 3, 2024, Federal Register notice soliciting comments on the agency’s plan to implement best practices for guidance development got me thinking. What do the data show regarding FDA’s performance in moving...more
ACI’s FDA Boot Camp – now in its 42nd iteration – continues to provide the working knowledge of core essentials of FDA law and regulation, including the new amendments under the Food and Drug Omnibus Reform Act (FDORA). This...more
Despite continued perceived economic headwinds, cutting edge research continues to provide new opportunities for life saving therapies for patients. However, early development programs for advanced medicines using innovative...more
As the life sciences, medtech, and diagnostic industries continue to expand and grow increasingly complex, so does the legal, regulatory, and compliance landscape. To help companies and investors navigate the many evolving...more
On September 29, 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA or "agency") announced the opportunity for a limited number of sponsors to participate in a new pilot program called Support for clinical Trials Advancing Rare...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published new draft guidance on “Regulatory Considerations for Prescription Drug Use-Related Software” (PDS Guidance), which describes how FDA intends to apply its drug labeling...more
FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), the locus of regulating cell and gene therapies among other expanding areas of biotech, is poised for change on a number of important fronts—leadership, significant...more
ACI’s FDA Boot Camp is back in Boston! This essential training course – now in its 41st iteration – continues to provide the working knowledge of core essentials of FDA law and regulation, including the new amendments under...more
Biologics have long been defined by their processes, raising complicated questions about how to assess the effect of manufacturing changes on product quality—i.e., whether pre- and post-change products are comparable. This...more
On May 22, 2023, the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an untitled letter to AT Venture Center for Global Techtrepeneurship, LLC dba Regenerelle, LLC...more
On May 10, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a discussion paper, “Using Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning in the Development of Drug & Biological Products.” The paper is a collaboration between...more
On March 23, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a framework to guide regulatory decision-making on the use of digital health technologies (DHT) in clinical drug trials. DHTs include a wide array of...more
On March 1, 2023, the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published its first untitled letter of the year to Thomas Advanced Medical LLC (Thomas) for marketing...more