International regulators discuss available knowledge supporting COVID-19 medicine development

3 April 2020 - On 2 April, regulators from around the world joined the second workshop on COVID-19 organised by ...

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Advancing regulatory science in the EU – new strategy adopted

31 March 2020 - EMA has published its Regulatory Science Strategy to 2025 today.  ...

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Global regulators map out data requirements for phase 1 COVID-19 vaccine trials

24 March 2020 - Global regulators have published a report today presenting the outcomes of a workshop on COVID-19 vaccine ...

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FDA and EMA collaborate to facilitate SARS-CoV-2 vaccine development

23 March 2020 - Vaccines offer a way to build immunity to a disease-causing microorganism before one has ever been exposed ...

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Call to pool research resources into large multi-centre, multi-arm clinical trials to generate sound evidence on COVID-19 treatments

19 March 2020 - EMA’s Human Medicines Committee has published a statement urging the EU research community to prioritise large randomised ...

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First regulatory workshop on COVID-19 facilitates global collaboration on vaccine development

18 March 2020 - Today, the first global regulatory workshop on COVID-19, was convened under the umbrella of the International Coalition ...

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COVID-19: developers of medicines or vaccines to benefit from free scientific advice

13 March 2020 - EMA provides full fee waivers for scientific advice applications from developers of potential therapeutics (to treat ...

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EMA to support development of vaccines and treatments for novel coronavirus

4 February 2020 - To contribute to the global response to the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) infections, EMA ...

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Supporting medicine developers in generating quality data packages in early access approaches (PRIME and breakthrough therapies)

31 July 2019 - EMA and the US FDA have published today a report on their joint workshop with stakeholders ...

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EMA facilitates early engagement with medicine developers to combat antimicrobial resistance

24 May 2019 - As of today, EMA is opening up the early dialogue available through its Innovation Task Force ...

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Minimal residual disease as a surrogate outcome for product development for multiple myeloma: comparing FDA and EMA guidances

8 April 2019 - This article discusses the need to update regulatory science to include the use of minimal residual disease ...

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“Repurposing” off-patent drugs offers big hopes of new treatments

28 February 2019 - Towards the end of 2014 a 66-year-old British man named Alistair had a seizure. A scan ...

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Revised guideline aims to strengthen global approach to development of new antibacterial medicines

14 January 2019 - EMA has published a PDF revision of its guideline on the evaluation of human medicines ...

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Data from patient registries to replace clinical trials in previously untreated haemophilia patients

30 November 2018 - EMA has published revised guidelines on the tests and studies needed to support marketing authorisation applications ...

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The evolution of adaptiveness: balancing speed and evidence

29 November 2018 - 'Adaptive' approaches to bringing drugs to market have been widely discussed in recent years.  ...

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