US FDA Drugs Center Ready To Break Down Silos On Regulatory Innovation

CDER Director Cavazzoni is promising to increase coordination and collaboration to accelerate broader adoption of innovative clinical trial designs and other approaches to speed drug development. A new "Quantitative Medicine Center of Excellence" illustrates the approach. 

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FDA CDER Director wants to create "connective tissue" to prevent the organization from operating in silos. • Source: Shutterstock

The launch of a new Center of Excellence focused on modeling and simulation reflects a broader effort by the US Food and Drug Administration’s drugs center to institutionalize innovative approaches to support drug development and regulatory decisions.

FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research announced a new Quantitative Medicine Center of Excellence on 25 March. The new...

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