US FDA’s Woodcock Rejects Firewall Between Presubmission Advice And Application Review
Executive Summary
Public Citizen proposal that FDA staff who provide presubmission advice on a development program not be involved in reviewing the subsequent product application would cause significant public health repercussions and delay drug development, acting commissioner says; Public Citizen had cited ‘close collaboration’ between the FDA and Biogen on aducanumab in calling for the separation.
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