Regenerative Medicine Advanced Therapy (RMAT) Designation

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The RMAT Designation is analogous to the Breakthrough Designation designed for traditional drug candidates but applies to regenerative medicine treatments, and allows companies to interact with the FDA more frequently during the clinical development of the therapy. An RMAT-designated therapy is eligible for priority review and accelerated approval.

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This program grants a voucher for priority review from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which aim to render a decision within 6 months (in contrast to 10 for a standard review). The developed drug for which the voucher is awarded must be intended for a rare disease or condition and that primarily affect individuals from 0 to 18 years. The voucher can be utilized for any other drug development program.

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FDA Expedited Program for serious conditions – Special Protocol Assessment

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FDA-SPA is a process in which sponsors may ask to meet with FDA to reach agreement on the design and size of certain clinical trials, clinical studies, or animal studies, to determine if they adequately address scientific and regulatory requirements for a study that could support marketing approval.

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The European Network of Paediatric Research at the European Medicines Agency (Enpr- EMA) is a network of research networks, investigators and centres with recognised expertise in performing clinical studies in children. Enpr-EMA enables networking and collaboration with members from within and outside the European Union (EU), including academia and the pharmaceutical industry

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The European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services have a program to provide parallel scientific advice (PSA) to sponsors. The goal of the PSA program is to provide a mechanism for EMA assessors and FDA reviewers to concurrently exchange with sponsors their views on scientific issues during the development phase of new medicinal products (i.e., new human drugs and Biologics).

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Magisterial hospital preparations – hospital exemptions

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Article 28 of the ATMP Regulation also empowers Member States to permit the manufacturing and use of certain non- routine produced advanced therapies that have not been authorised by the Commission under certain conditions (so-called “Hospital Exemption”) outside the scope of the Medicinal Product Directive 2001/23.

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Joint EMA-HTA Scientific Advice

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The European Medicines Agency (EMA) offers consultations in parallel with the European Network for Health Technology Assessment (EUnetHTA) as of July 2017. This aims to allow medicine developers to obtain feedback from regulators and health technology assessment (HTA) bodies on their evidence-generation plans to support decision-making on marketing authorisation and reimbursement of new medicines at the same time.

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