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Tracking PDUFA in real time

PhRMA, BIO creating PDUFA V tracking database

June 3, 2013 7:00 AM UTC

FDA, PhRMA and BIO spent months crafting a new, "enhanced" review process for new molecular entities as part of PDUFA V negotiations, and the trade associations don't want to wait years to find out if it is performing as intended.

To assess progress, inform efforts to fine tune the process, and provide grist for the PDUFA VI negotiations in 2016, PhRMA and BIO have launched a PDUFA V tracking database. The goal is to produce detailed data in real time about sponsor-FDA interactions from pre-NDA/BLA meetings through final regulatory actions...