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Patients with two copies of the Alzheimer’s high-risk gene apolipoprotein e4 (APOE4) are more likely to develop the biological characteristics that define Alzheimer’s disease, a finding that could have important implications in drug design and clinical trials. Read More
The overall quality of data and risk of potential bias in them should be top of the mind for European sponsors who want to employ real-word data (RWD) in non-interventional studies (NIS), according to a reflection paper released by the European Medicines Agency. Read More
The FDA’s CDER has released 2023 Annual Reports for its Offices of New Drugs (OND) and Translational Sciences (OTS), highlighting activities that span dozens of drug approvals and guidances from developing AI-enabled software prototypes to identify adverse drug events. Read More
Most of the new oncology indications approved under Real Time Oncology Review (RTOR) relied on surrogate endpoints that were never confirmed as clinically effective in postmarketing trials, according to a research letter published in JAMA Network Open. Read More
Investigators found that the FDA OK’d nearly 80 percent of these non-supported surrogate markers as appropriate endpoints for a traditional approval. Read More
Almost 60 percent of surrogate markers supporting FDA approvals for nononcologic drugs for chronic diseases aren’t backed up by meta-analyses showing a strong association between the marker and relevant clinical endpoints, a new JAMA Network study says. Read More
Two pharmaceutical giants based in Japan — Takeda and Astellas — have signed a master agreement along with Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation to establish a joint venture company dedicated to the incubation of early drug discovery programs in Japan. Read More
Many drug developers could improve the alignment of their quality units and their business units — and potentially avoid Form 483 inspection observations — if they dusted off and applied the International Council on Harmonization’s ICH Q10 Pharmaceutical Quality System guidance, according to one pharma quality expert. Read More
Most cancer drugs that gain an Accelerated Approval don’t end up showing any clinical benefit in their confirmatory trials, exposing thousands of patients to ineffective therapeutics that may linger on the market for years until postmarketing studies show their true clinical impact, a new analysis has shown. Read More