Yesterday, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas vacated the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s 2024 rule that aimed to regulate laboratory-developed tests (LDTs) as medical devices, deciding it is...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published the draft guidance “Protocol Deviations for Clinical Investigations of Drugs, Biological Products, and Devices,” which provides advice for sponsors, investigators, and...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently held a Patient Engagement Advisory Committee meeting focused on clinical trial informed consent practices. Below, we summarize key takeaways from the meeting, including a...more
Last week, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Robert Califf, M.D., and other senior FDA officials published a “Special Communication” in JAMA titled, “FDA Perspective on the Regulation of Artificial...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) finalized its revised guidance summarizing how it intends regulate the use of electronic systems, records, and signatures in clinical investigations to account for advances in...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued its long-awaited draft guidance, “Diversity Action Plans to Improve Enrollment of Participants from Underrepresented Populations in Clinical Studies,” which outlines the...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced yesterday a “Small Entity Compliance Guide” (SECG) for Laboratory Developed Tests (LDTs), aiming to assist small entities in complying with FDA’s LDT final rule, which...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has finalized its historic — and notoriously controversial — rule to explicitly assert the agency’s authority to regulate laboratory developed tests (LDTs). Below we summarize the...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
Speaking at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference this year, Hogan Lovells life sciences regulatory partners Lowell Zeta and Blake Wilson, were joined by Greenleaf Health’s Kalah Auchincloss, Executive Vice President,...more
Last week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a draft guidance on the use of data monitoring committees (DMCs) in clinical trials entitled “Use of Data Monitoring Committees in Clinical Trials.” In the...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) continues its efforts to include diverse participants in clinical research with a newly-published revision to its draft guidance document entitled, “Collection of Race and Ethnicity...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has published a final rule on “Institutional Review Board Waiver or Alteration of Informed Consent for Minimal Risk Clinical Investigations,” which permits an exception from the...more
An already challenging financing market can seem especially daunting for innovative technologies that seek to go beyond merely treating a disease in order to promote healthy longevity. Innovators inspired by the promise of...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) signaled that it intends to finalize its laboratory developed test (LDT) proposed rule by April 2024. The new rule (if finalized as drafted) is intended to clarify the agency’s...more
Nine years after the draft version was published, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has finalized its guidance on informed consent for sponsors, institutions, IRBs, and investigators. The final guidance supersedes FDA’s...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
In a landmark proposed rule published Friday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced plans to make explicit that in vitro diagnostic products (IVDs), including in cases where the manufacturer of the IVD is a...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently released the guidance “Oncology Drug Products Used with Certain In Vitro Diagnostic Tests: Pilot Program,” laying out the process by which FDA will offer up to nine drug makers...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently issued two discussion papers on the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) in the development of drug and biologics, and in the manufacturing of...more
Last week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued draft guidance on Good Clinical Practice (GCP), adopting the International Council for Harmonisation’s (ICH) “E6(R3)” guidelines. Below we summarize how the draft...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just published a highly-anticipated draft guidance on the implementation of decentralized clinical trials (DCTs) for drugs, biologics, and medical devices. In the draft...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) – in collaboration with the University of Maryland Center of Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation (M-CERSI) – recently hosted a one-day virtual public workshop entitled,...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has several programs available that can expedite the development and regulatory review of a drug or biological product, including Accelerated Approval, which allows for approval of...more
U.S. President Biden recently enacted the “Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023,” a $1.7 trillion omnibus funding bill that contains the Food and Drug Omnibus Reform Act (FDORA). Below we analyze how Section 3612 of FDORA,...more