Regulatory agencies in various countries are providing benefits & regulatory incentives for orphan drugs such as faster approvals, fee concessions, and financial benefits, and many more. These incentives are to support and encourage pharma companies to work on developing orphan drugs or medical devices for rare diseases. The countries that provide regulatory incentives include the […]

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Orphan drug designation for rare disease qualifies the sponsor of the drug for various development incentives of the ODA, including tax credits for qualified clinical testing, so let’s know more about Orphan drug designation Worldwide orphan drug sales are forecast to grow at a CAGR of 12.3% from 2019 to 2024, which is approximately double […]

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Many regulatory agencies across the world are offering incentives for the development of orphan drugs for rare diseases. These incentives include financial benefits, faster approvals, less stringent clinical data requirements, and many more. The countries that are offering the regulatory incentives for orphan drugs include the US, Europe, Japan, Australia, South Korea, Brazil, and most […]

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Clinical supply chain teams manage some typical challenges almost every day of their work in handling clinical trial logistics for local or global clinical trials. These include those related to regulatory compliance, temperature control (or, excursions), labeling, actual shipment, or last-mile delivery. These challenges are often compounded multi-fold when clinical trials are related to a […]

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Learning about global regulatory requirements and understanding the pathway for approval can help clinical development teams take their global strategy in the right direction. Sharing expertise from regulatory experts for those who need it. (This article was originally published on LinkedIn). It’s no news that we are now living in an era with a tremendous surge […]

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Rare diseases are rapidly becoming a high priority therapeutic area for our industry. This is needed, especially when fewer than 5% of approx 7,000 rare diseases have drug therapies available, and many of these provide limited benefit. There is also a business case to this, due to a supportive reimbursement environment, particularly in the US. […]

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Cost and time for clinical development constitute more than 70% of the total development of any drug! Small – mid-scale biopharma are known for their innovative approaches, agility, and faster developments. However, clinical development has always been one step too important, yet too hard for them. There are ways to overcome these challenges and optimize […]

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Most of the small and mid-size pharma are stressed out while outsourcing pre-clinical and clinical development to CRO (Contract Research Organization). Selection factors differ while choosing CRO for large and small-medium scale companies. These include factors like budgeting, multiple region selection, and approaches. Increased outsourcing is seen in pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, with 85 percent of […]

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Patient recruitment in rare disease clinical trials presents several difficulties. These challenges include limited eligible patients, dispersed geographic distribution, low disease awareness, site and investigator identification difficulties, and ethical considerations. They hinder participant enrollment and cause trial completion delays. Over the past few years, the rate of drug development in rare diseases has been increasing. […]

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Revised Chinese regulations that brought a lot of changes in clinical trials and product registrations were received with lots of questions. If you have got questions that are yet unanswered, you are not alone. Many researchers, developers, and managers are not sure about one aspect or another on how to comprehend, act, or change their […]

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