Woodcock Weighs in on ARPA-H - POLITICO's Prescription Pulse

If the proposed Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health is created, new treatment candidates would need to engage with FDA early on to help determine appropriate clinical testing design, FDA principal deputy commissioner Janet Woodcock said Monday at the Reagan Udall Foundation for the FDA’s annual public board of directors meeting. Read more here.

FDA’s Technology and Data Modernization in Action in 2022

In partnership with the Reagan-Udall Foundation, the FDA and the Friends of Cancer Research launched the Evidence Accelerator (EA) to advance the use of Real-World Data (RWD) to inform the COVID-19 response. In collaboration, ODT and the FDA’s Office of Food Policy and Response hosted the FDA New Era of Smarter Food Safety Low- or No-Cost Tech-Enabled Traceability Challenge.

US FDA Tries To Shape The Accelerated Approval Reform Narrative - Pink Sheet

US Food and Drug Administration officials appear to want stakeholders, and maybe more importantly, lawmakers, to let go of the notion that failure is not an option with accelerated approval.

“There is going to be uncertainty regarding whether the drug will actually impact a clinical outcome at the time of approval,” Jacqueline Corrigan-Curay, FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research principal deputy center director, said during an 11 March Reagan-Udall Foundation webinar on the expedited pathway. “Uncertainty by definition means that not every study will confirm benefit.”

Chelsea Project Tapped for $893,500 Rapid-Testing Research Grant - The Digital Journal

Two organizations with roots at MIT have joined forces to improve our understanding and use of rapid antigen tests in real-world settings. IDx20, headed by MIT scientist Irene Bosch, together with the Chelsea Project are the recipients of one of only two national research grants totaling $1.8 million from the Reagan-Udall Foundation for the FDA (FDA Foundati

Meharry’s Dr. Hildreth Joins FDA Foundation Board- The Tennessee Tribune

The Reagan-Udall Foundation for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA Foundation) has appointed four new Board members: David C. Fajgenbaum, MD, MBA, MSc, FCPP, University of Pennsylvania; William N. Hait, MD, PhD, Johnson & Johnson; James E.K. Hildreth, MD, PhD, Meharry Medical College and Debra L. Ness, former President of the National Partnership for Women and Families. 

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