
FDA's OCE makes the case for accelerated approval rider in user fee reauthorization
Four experts from the FDA’s Oncology Center of Excellence took to the New England Journal of Medicine yesterday to make the case for not only improving the agency’s ability to expeditiously pull dangling accelerated approvals when, on the rare occasion, confirmatory trials fail, but also better building “quality and efficiency into the AA on-ramp.”
The timely perspective arrives as Congress has exactly one week left to draft, release and sign off on the reauthorized user fee deals before layoff notices will be sent to drug reviewers. That package, which is likely to hitch a ride with the continuing resolution, may or may not include several policy riders (opposed by Republicans), including one that would allow the FDA to require confirmatory trials to be underway before an AA is granted, and would improve the process by which FDA can withdraw AAs.
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