The News In Depth

IPQ Monthly Update – May/June 2018 in Review

The issue includes in-depth stories on: ● the intensive dialogue going on now in the wake of the emergence of an ICH Q12 Step 2b draft for public comment ● the role EFPIA’s European Biopharma Enterprises (EBE) is playing in identifying and building consensus around the most pressing issues on the global regulatory agenda for biotech manufacturing and control, and ● the experience at a leading in vitro fertilization (IVF) clinic in figuring out the cause of dramatic periodic declines in the clinic’s normal best-in-class success rates and what needed to be done to prevent them, including the development of much more powerful air purification technology.

August 6, 2018 | Posted in The News in Depth | Read More »

Experience with In Vitro Fertilization Clinics Raises Strong Warnings on Cell Culture/Processing Air Purification

Experience with in vitro fertilization (IVF) clinics is sending a strong signal that applying significantly heightened air purification standards and more advanced technology to meet them may be critical across all cell culture/processing operations.

July 16, 2018 | Posted in The News in Depth,Uncategorized | Read More »

CMC Priorities of EFPIA’s European Biopharmaceutical Enterprises Include ADCs, Drug/Device Combos and Statistics

Drug device combinations (DDCs), antibody drug conjugates (ADCs), and the use of statistics in comparability assessments are among the current focal points of the European Biopharmaceutical Enterprises (EBE) in its efforts to identify and build consensus around the most pressing issues on the global regulatory agenda for biotech manufacturing and control.

July 11, 2018 | Posted in The News in Depth,Uncategorized | Read More »

Pharma is Exploring How to Maximize ICH Q12 Value in Practice; Q12 EWG Encourages Feedback

Pharmaceutical manufacturers are exploring how the ICH Q12 lifecycle management concepts can be implemented internally and in their interactions with regulators to maximize the benefits in practice.

July 3, 2018 | Posted in The News in Depth,Uncategorized | Read More »

IPQ Monthly Update – March/April 2018 in Review

Industry and regulators in the US and Europe are making a concerted effort to improve the depth and clarity of their communications on the manufacturing and control of drug/biologic/device combination products. The three stories in this issue explore the challenges of melding the drug and device regulatory worlds and what is being done to address them.

June 11, 2018 | Posted in The News in Depth | Read More »

Understanding Drug/Device Terminology Differences is Critical to Combination Product Control and Regulatory Communications, Industry Experts are Stressing

Industry experts are stressing that the payoff for combination products in understanding and bridging the drug/biologic/device terminology differences is a smoother development process, a simpler, more effective control system, and better communications with CMC reviewers and GMP inspectors.

May 21, 2018 | Posted in The News in Depth,Uncategorized | Read More »

FDA Inspection Findings Provide Additional Insight on CGMP Expectations for Combination Product Manufacturers

The light being shed on the current GMP regulatory expectations for risk management and manufacturing control of combination products by FDA’s inspection engagement with pharma sponsors and their device partners has been a focal point at recent conferences in the US and Europe.

May 11, 2018 | Posted in The News in Depth,Uncategorized | Read More »

Improving Communications on Drug/Device Combination Product Quality and Performance is an Increasing Priority in the US and Europe

Industry and regulators in the US and Europe are wrestling with how best to interpret and communicate drug quality-by-design (QbD) concepts, device design controls (DC) and overall final product risk management in the drug/biologic/device combination product context.

May 10, 2018 | Posted in The News in Depth,Uncategorized | Read More »

IPQ Monthly Update – January/February 2018 in Review

During January and February, IPQ was focused heavily on the emerging challenges faced by regulators due to the rapidly increasing number of applications encompassing new products and therapies, technologies and processes. The three stories in this issue explore: ● how FDA’s generic drug review process is evolving with user fee support to address the increasing number and complexity of products emerging through it ● how CBER is responding to the wave of advanced therapies it is now facing, and ● a CDER/CBER view of the current biologic product CMC review landscape and the BLA challenges, accomplishments, and learnings.

April 11, 2018 | Posted in Monthly Update,The News in Depth | Read More »

Opening Panel at CASSS 2018 WCBP Conference Assesses FDA’s 2017 CMC Regulatory Experience with Biotherapeutics and Key Challenges Going Forward

The opening plenary session of the 2018 CASSS Well-Characterized Biotechnology Products (WCBP) Conference, brought together a panel of FDA senior officials engaged in the CMC review process for biological products to assess the 2017 learnings and what the agency and industry needs to do to address the regulatory challenges and stresses going forward.

March 9, 2018 | Posted in The News in Depth,Uncategorized | Read More »