Bio.News: BIO 2024: Can data improve clinical trial diversity?

“One of the things that we’ve noticed, not just in the pandemic, is this problem of missing race and ethnicity information,” explained Carla Rodriguez-Watson, Ph.D., MPH, Director of Research at the Reagan-Udall Foundation for the FDA. “If you do not have this information, where patients are being seen, where their information is being collected, then we have a limited view into what that population distribution of disease is.”

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Fierce Biotech: Ultragenyx wins surrogate endpoint debate, securing green light to seek FDA approval of gene therapy

Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical's work to get the FDA to recognize a biomarker as a surrogate endpoint looks to have paid off. With the agency agreeing the biomarker is a reasonable surrogate endpoint, Ultragenyx is preparing to file for approval of its Sanfilippo syndrome gene therapy around the end of the year.

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