This FDA program allows early access to drugs and medical devices before marketing approval, under regulatory oversight with collection of Safety data, to individual patients with serious or immediately life-threatening diseases or conditions who lack therapeutic alternatives. This includes emergency and non-emergency expanded access.

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INTERACT Meetings (Initial Targeted Engagement for Regulatory Advice on CBER products)

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Through a CBER Initial Targeted Engagement for Regulatory Advice on CBER producTs (INTERACT) meeting, sponsors can obtain initial, nonbinding advice from FDA regarding chemistry, manufacturing and controls, pharmacology/Toxicology, and/or clinical aspects of the development program

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The Patient-focused Drug Development (PFDD) program was initiated at FDA from 2012- 2017 under Congressional Mandate (PDUFA V) to more systematically obtain the patient perspective on specific diseases and their treatments. PFDD meetings provide key stakeholders an opportunity to hear the patient’s voice.

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Interaction of the stakeholders and multilateral education at an early stage of development will facilitate drug development (e.g. ensuring outcome measures for clinical trials are developed that are meaningful for patients, are acceptable to the regulators, and are acceptable to payers)

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