FDA lays down the law on gene ther­a­py, of­fer­ing guid­ances on both dis­eases and pro­ce­dures

As first an­nounced in Jan­u­ary, the FDA’s Cen­ter for Bi­o­log­ics Eval­u­a­tion and Re­search (CBER) on Wednes­day of­fered a swath of new draft guid­ance doc­u­ments on hu­man gene ther­a­pies — of­fer­ing a look at what it ex­pects from an in­dus­try that’s be­gin­ning to take off.

The six guid­ance doc­u­ments fo­cus on de­vel­op­ing he­mo­phil­ia, rare dis­ease and reti­nal dis­or­der gene ther­a­pies, and in­clude one on chem­istry, man­u­fac­tur­ing and con­trol (CMC) in­for­ma­tion, one on long term fol­low-up ob­ser­va­tion­al stud­ies col­lect­ing da­ta on ad­verse events and one on the test­ing of retro­vi­ral vec­tor-based ther­a­pies.

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