FDA seeks advice on screening patients potentially at higher risk for liver and other injuries, strategies to implement before or after gene therapy administration to head off or mitigate potential adverse events, and whether upper limits should be set for the total vector genome dose and total capsid dose.
A US Food and Drug Administration advisory committee will discuss potential strategies for mitigating, monitoring and preventing various types of toxicities with adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector-based gene therapies at 2-3 September meeting.
The Cellular, Tissue and Gene Therapies Advisory Committee will consider recommendations on screening patients potentially at higher risk for liver...
In what could amount to a de facto enforcement mechanism, the new draft guidance also “strongly encourages” sponsors to share details about their diversity action plan and enrollment goals with the public.
Long-term follow-up requirements have taken a conservative approach but could be ripe for re-examination and global harmonization given the years of experience with the products, Kite Pharma executive director says; former FDA gene/cell therapy office head Wilson Bryan calls for elimination of the classwide REMS.
Program for collaborative reviews of gene therapy applications is getting under way with the European Medicines Agency. After launch, the pilot could be expanded to earlier discussions around CMC and pharm/tox data requirements, FDA’s Nicole Verdun said.
