Reconstructing Advisory Committees: FDA Conflict of Interest Policy Will Pose Challenges for Drug Sponsors

Drug sponsors soon will have another hurdle to overcome at advisory committee meetings: significant turnover in the experts asked to consider the approvability of their products. The new policy will help FDA quiet critics of the agency's advisory committee system, but it will also create more noise around the drug approval process.

The look of the Food & Drug Administration’s advisory committees is about to change—literally. Following FDA’s decision to impose tougher conflict of interest criteria on advisory committees, many of the familiar faces serving today may be forced to reconsider their membership.

For drug sponsors, especially those that are filing NDAs this year, the change in advisory committee composition means preparing for...

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