While EU preparations are underway to introduce strict legal requirements for all AI systems, the UK has doubled down on its flexible, non-regulatory framework. In this second of a two-part article, a lawyer explains the pros and cons of each for pharma and medtech firms.
From identifying novel drug targets to analyzing clinical trial data, artificial intelligence (AI) has a plethora of uses in pharmaceutical R&D. Due to its relative novelty, however, AI is largely unregulated across the globe – something that many major governments and policymakers have acknowledged as a potential problem.
While most experts agree that the dangers of AI must be somehow mitigated and monitored, there has been little consensus...
The Artificial Intelligence Council takes over the work that three different entities in the US FDA’s drugs center had been performing. The new, centralized entity will develop and promote consistency of AI-related activities and advance innovative uses.
Pharmaceutical companies should only use AI in evidence generation and reporting where there is “demonstrable value from doing so,” according to England’s health technology assessment body, NICE.
Shanghai issues a new set of policies and financial incentives designed to support and speed up regulatory and commercial activities in the biopharma sector, in a comprehensive stimulus package for companies based in the major Chinese city.
From the US FDA’s ISTAND Program to EU’s Melloddy Initiative, and from the global challenges of real-world data to the opportunities in India, Parexel’s EVP for Clinical Data and Digital Services, chief strategy officer and India head speak on a range of topics in this interview with the Pink Sheet.
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.
