Pink Sheet Podcast: What’s In And Out Of US FDA’s Diversity Action Plan Guidance, AI Guidance Also Coming

 
• By Derrick Gingery, Sarah Karlin-Smith, and Nielsen Hobbs
  
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Pink Sheet reporter and editors discuss what the FDA included in its long-awaited guidance on clinical trial diversity action plans, along with what was left out, as well as an upcoming guidance on the use of artificial intelligence in regulatory decision-making.

Pink Sheet Executive Editor Derrick Gingery, Senior Writer Sarah Karlin-Smith and Interim Editor in Chief Nielsen Hobbs take a deep dive into the US Food and Drug Administration’s new clinical trial diversity action plan draft guidance and consider what information stakeholders may still want (:35), as well as discuss the agency’s plan to issue guidance on artificial intelligence use in regulatory decision-making (27:30).

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