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ARTICLE | Politics & Policy

FDA’s Project Facilitate fielded 161 compassionate use requests in first three months

October 31, 2019 3:45 PM UTC
Updated on Nov 1, 2019 at 12:14 AM UTC

Project Facilitate, an FDA call center that guides physicians through the process of obtaining expanded access -- or compassionate use -- to investigational cancer therapies, handled about 161 requests from its launch on June 3 to Aug. 31, an agency spokesperson told BioCentury.

Project Facilitate has had a 20% increase in single-patient IND submissions compared with the same period last year, according to the spokesperson. ...