Proving Ground For “Breakthrough” Status Coming With Impending User Fee Goals
Executive Summary
Novel drug and biologic applications with user fee goals in 2014’s second half cluster around infectious disease – notably hepatitis C, with three “breakthrough” drugs pending, antibiotics and meningitis B vaccines (also designated “breakthroughs”) – and oncology, where the first regulatory tests of the highly anticipated PD-1 immune checkpoint inhibitors are coming up.
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