Advisory committee review of safety issues with the PI3K inhibitor class of drugs for hematologic malignancies served as a platform for the Oncology Center of Excellence’s Project Optimus initiative, which emphasizes an earlier and more thorough assessment of different doses, including through randomized trials.
The US Food and Drug Administration’s Oncology Center of Excellence used the recent advisory committee review of safety concerns with phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) inhibitors to publicly spell out its expectations for dose optimization studies under Project Optimus.
Those expectations include more comprehensive dose escalation studies with more patients and longer periods of observation, to be followed by...
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.
