US FDA Expands Drug Development Tool Qualification Program With ISTAND Pilot
Executive Summary
ClinROs, artificial intelligence-based algorithms will be included in approval pathway. FDA is taking a crash course on new techniques for trial assessment thanks to COVID.
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