US FDA To Exercise ‘Maximum Regulatory Flexibility’ For COVID-19 Plasma-Derived Therapeutics
Executive Summary
Agency is working with manufacturers, including Takeda and Emergent BioSolutions, to accelerate development of hyperimmune globulin products, with an eye toward starting clinical testing in several months; new FDA guidelines on convalescent plasma collection for single-patient emergency IND use are helpful in understanding agency expectations around source plasma collection for manufactured products as well, Emergent SVP Laura Saward says.
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