Pink Sheet Podcast: Clinical Trial Diversity, Off-Label Standard Of Care Issues, In-Person US FDA Adcomms

 
• By Derrick Gingery, Sarah Karlin-Smith, and Sue Sutter
  
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Pink Sheet reporter and editors discuss former Surgeon General Jerome Adams’ views on how the FDA can better ensure clinical trial diversity, questions about approving a new drug that would be used with a standard of care regimen that is off-label, and the agency beginning to schedule fully in-person advisory committee meetings.

Pink Sheet Executive Editor Derrick Gingery, Senior Writer Sarah Karlin-Smith and Senior Editor Sue Sutter discuss former US Surgeon General Jerome Adams’ view that additional regulation is necessary to ensure industry complies with clinical trial diversity requirements (:27), as well as questions about the US Food and Drug Administration potentially approving Zevra Denmark A/S’ arimoclomol in Niemann-Pick disease type C, but with an unapproved standard-of-care regimen (15:00). They also consider any adjustments sponsors and others may encounter when the FDA returns to fully in-person advisory committee meetings in September (24:03).

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