The number of clinical trials for rare diseases is increasing drastically from the last ten years to more than 500 as compared to a few hundred clinical trials. Currently, more than 400 orphan designated drugs are commercially available, and around 1000 drugs are undergoing clinical trials. Drug development in rare diseases is often challenging and […]
Read More →Clinical trials in rare diseases are more challenging than clinical trials in more frequent diseases for many factors such as the trial design, the number of patient populations available for recruitment, require regulatory support, etc. Applying a perfect clinical development strategy may help in overcoming these challenges and accelerate the drug development process in Orphan […]
Read More →This article is a sequence of the Regulatory & Drug Approval Process in the United States, Part-I, which describes the Investigational New Drug (IND) approval process, New Drug Approval (NDA), and Generic drug approval process. In this article, we will discuss the market approval process of biologics, biosimilars, orphan drugs, and various drug approval pathways. Which is the regulatory authority […]
Read More →In recent years, there is a huge leap in the pharma industry towards rare disease research and orphan drug developments due to the great support from regulatory authorities such as faster approval timelines, supportive regulatory frameworks, financial incentives, and many more. Currently, large pharmaceutical companies like Novartis, GSK, Roche, and Pfizer are extremely active in […]
Read More →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 […]
Read More →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. […]
Read More →Rare disease drug development is a rapidly expanding field with growing pressure for getting a more orphan drugs approved to treat rare diseases. There is a vast consensus among patients, health care bodies, governments, etc. to expedite drug development in this field. Some wonderful numbers that attest to growing interest in rare diseases and orphan […]
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