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Innovation in immuno-oncology: Leading companies in in-vitro T-cell activation

Pharmaceutical Technology

In the last three years alone, there have been over 633,000 patents filed and granted in the pharmaceutical industry, according to GlobalData’s report on Immuno-oncology in Pharmaceuticals: In-vitro T-cell activation. Immatics is the leading patent filer in in-vitro T-cell activation.

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CDSCO calls for timely reporting of adverse events related to medical devices to MvPI

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The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) has requested stakeholders to take appropriate action for timely reporting of adverse events related to medical devices to the Materiovigilance Programme of India (MvPI), in the backdrop of shifting the segment to licensing regime.

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A Question 30 Years in the Making: Would a Final LDT Rule Withstand Judicial Scrutiny?

FDA Law Blog

Lenz, Principal Medical Device Regulation Expert & Sophia R. Gibbs — For more than three decades, FDA has claimed that the Federal Food, Drug & Cosmetic (FD&C Act) gives the agency legal authority to regulate laboratory developed tests (LDTs) as medical devices (see our prior post here ). Gaulkin & Jeffrey N.

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It’s My Party and I’ll Cry if I Want to: A Bittersweet Happy 30th Birthday to LDTs

FDA Law Blog

Thirty years ago today, FDA announced that it had the authority to regulate you. Food and Drug Administration, Compliance Policy Guide, Commercialization of Unapproved In Vitro Diagnostic Devices Labeled for Research and Investigation (Aug. By Jeffrey N. Gibbs & Allyson B. Mullen — Happy Birthday Laboratory Developed Tests (LDTs).

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Considerations for Mobile Health Technology Developers: Part 1

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The FDA’s General Approach to Regulating mHealth Products. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulation as a medical device. Determining whether a product is a medical device subject to FDA regulation necessarily begins with understanding the FDA regulatory definition of ‘medical device’. not a medical device, ii.

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A Final LDT Rule in April!? Will FDA be prepared?

FDA Law Blog

1] Yet FDA’s conclusions about the Agency’s ability to regulate the entire laboratory industry are based on fundamentally flawed assumptions about the number of entities and tests that will be subject to FDA regulation. 5] This stratification, though, assumes that LDTs will follow the same pattern as IVDs currently regulated by FDA.

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Considerations for Mobile Health Technology Developers: Part 2

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Criteria for regulation. The FDA regulates software that meets the definition of a medical device in section 201(h) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act). peer-reviewed clinical studies or clinical practice guidelines) meet Criterion 2 and are not medical devices subject to FDA regulation and oversight.