In an interview, Spark President Katherine High explains that multi-luminance mobility test used in clinical development of Spark's gene therapy voretigene sprang from 2011 FDA meeting on need to study functional vision in patients with retinal degenerative diseases. Experience highlights need for new endpoints when targeting previously untreated diseases, she says.
Spark Therapeutics Inc.'s experience with a new endpoint for testing Luxturna (voretigene neparvovec) in a rare vision disorder highlights the possibility that gene therapies and other novel therapeutics, particularly in the rare disease space, may require the development of equally novel efficacy assays.
Spark developed the multi-luminance mobility test (MLMT) to measure improvements in functional vision because existing efficacy assays did not directly...
A real-world evidence study also does not meet the regulatory standard for an adequate and well-controlled clinical investigation, the agency said. The FDA should allow the accelerated approval drug to remain available like other treatments that failed their confirmatory trials, Intercept said.
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Proposal to have panelists rate the strength of efficacy and safety evidence on a numeric scale also draws support in written comments on ways to optimize the advisory committee process.
A real-world evidence study also does not meet the regulatory standard for an adequate and well-controlled clinical investigation, the agency said. The FDA should allow the accelerated approval drug to remain available like other treatments that failed their confirmatory trials, Intercept said.
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Recent and upcoming US FDA advisory committee meetings and a summary of the topics covered.
