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Quality & Compliance
Ensuring you have full control over your processes, facility, and quality management system (QMS), and ultimately your final product quality, is a demanding and important task. An inability to do so...
We live in a world of data: there’s more of it than ever before, in a ceaselessly expanding array of forms and locations. Besides this, most people in their organizations are not always aware of data...
A Project Management Office ("PMO") can be incredibly advantageous to large companies with many ongoing projects across various job sites. A PMO streamlines project management processes to make a...
Our “Meet the Expert” series introduces you to our team of experts around the world. This “behind the curtain” view will help you get to know who we are on a professional and personal level, and...
Regulatory Sciences
It's no secret. To be successful in the life sciences industry you must accomplish a lot – achieve and maintain profitable growth, deliver safe and effective products to patients quickly, manage...
Regulatory Sciences
The Medical Device Single Audit Program (MDSAP), initiated by the International Medical Device Regulators Forum (IMDRF), created a global approach to auditing and monitoring the manufacturing of...
Over recent years relations with data and its weight have changed significantly; consequently, an assessment of Company Data Integrity is becoming one of the key metrics of corporate functionality...
Regulatory Sciences
When it comes to usability studies, the focus should be on effectively preparing the medical device for use in humans. Whether a Sponsor is conducting formative testing or validation testing, the...
Quality & Compliance
Every industry has a distinct set of obstacles to overcome, but it’s no secret that the life sciences industry encounters more speedbumps than most. Market cycles and product failures are expected,...
In January 2020, FDA issued a final guidance document on the topic of "Testing of Retroviral Vector-Based Human Gene Therapy Products for Replication Competent Retrovirus During Product Manufacture...
As the world tries to get back to some semblance of normalcy after the coronavirus pandemic, pharmaceutical, biotech and med device companies are anticipating the day when the FDA returns to normal...
Quality & Compliance
Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products (ATMPs), or Cell and Gene Therapies (CGT), have the incredible potential to cure devastating illnesses, such as cancer, on a more personalized level. But, due to...
Before using a significant risk medical device in a clinical study, Sponsors must first obtain FDA approval. Frequently, the request for an investigational device exemption (IDE) is disapproved, and...
Regulatory Sciences
In late 2018, FDA announced changes to modernize and increase the efficiency of its 510(k) clearance pathway, which is the most common medical device submission and allows for the allows for the...
Regulatory Sciences
The threat of cyber-attacks against medical devices is real. Medical devices capable of connecting, wirelessly, wired, or to portable media such as a USB drive, are more vulnerable to cybersecurity...
Compiling and submitting a New Drug Application (NDA) submission is a complicated and intensive activity. Once you have submitted your application to FDA, you may be curious about what can you expect...
What’s Next for Rare Disease Innovation? For children suffering from rare and often life-threatening diseases, access to new and effective treatments can mean the difference between life and death....
A Safety Data Exchange Agreement (SDEA) or Pharmacovigilance Agreement (PVA) is a legal written contract which ensures that all safety data, PV tasks and responsibilities are detailed between two or...
In order to incentivize the development of therapies (drugs biologics) to fill unmet medical needs for treatment of serious conditions, the FDA has developed various programs to expedite drug...
What is a PSMF? The EU Pharmacovigilance System Master File (PSMF) is a legally required document created and maintained by a Marketing Authorisation Holder (MAH). Essentially, the document is a...
Patient Support Programs (PSPs) in the pharmaceutical sector offer a range of services to help patients start and adhere to their therapies, including Patient Assistance Programs (PAPs), patient...