Swiss New Drug Approval Times Lag Further Behind EU & US

While Swiss new drug review procedures generally took longer last year than in 2022, there was a “substantial” reduction in review times for products submitted under Project Orbis, this year’s benchmarking study has found.

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Switzerland saw drug approval procedures lengthen in 2023 compared with the previous year, with review times rising by 15% for products containing a new active substance (NAS) submitted under the standard procedure, according to the country’s medicines regulator, Swissmedic.

For all procedure types combined, Swissmedic’s reviews of NAS-containing drugs were 11% longer than those of the European Medicines Agency...

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