A recent New York Times article reported that dozens of spine surgery patients at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center were treated with a product that was not approved for use in such procedures. Burst...more
Speaking at the World Stem Cell Summit hosted by the Regenerative Medicine Foundation, Hogan Lovells partners Mike Druckman, Ernesto Algaba, Mandi Jacobson, Lu Zhou, Mikael Salmela, Charlotte Damiano, and Lowell Zeta, along...more
Speaking at the World Stem Cell Summit hosted by the Regenerative Medicine Foundation last week, Hogan Lovells partners Mike Druckman, Stuart Langbein, and Thomas Beimers discussed evolving government reimbursement issues for...more
On June 29-30, 2022, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will hold a virtual public meeting of the Cellular, Tissue, and Gene Therapies Advisory Committee (CTGTAC) to discuss its regulatory expectations for...more
On July 9, 2021, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) added a Q&A page on its website about the May 31 end of the grace period intended to provide developers of human...more
At the Food and Drug Law Institute’s 2021 annual conference, Dr. Peter Marks, the director of FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, commented on progress that has been made using FDA’s Regenerative Medicine...more
On April 21, 2021, FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) Director Peter Marks M.D. confirmed that the grace period intended to provide developers of regenerative medicines with time to assess whether they...more
In a move welcomed by industry, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted six additional months of enforcement discretion to manufacturers of certain human cell, tissue, or cellular or tissue-based products (HCT/Ps)....more
Following up on our first post in this year-end series that discussed medical device regulatory activities at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Mintz FDA team’s second year-end post will provide an overview of 2019...more
Acting Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Ned Sharpless, M.D. recently announced that FDA is implementing a temporary program called the Tissue Reference Group Rapid Inquiry Program (“TRIP”), which will assist...more
Therapies that use autologous or allogeneic stem cells are examples of early personalized therapies. Removing cells from a patient and reintroducing them to the same or a matched patient, for example, as done in bone marrow...more
On November 16, in the context of announcing a comprehensive regenerative medicine policy framework, FDA released a draft guidance document that describes the expedited programs available for the development and review of...more
Last week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a comprehensive framework for development and oversight of regenerative medicine products, including innovative cell-based therapies. ...more