Need For Advanced Manufacturing Technologies A ‘Great Learning’ From The Pandemic, CBER’s Marks Says
Executive Summary
COVID-19 highlighted limited domestic capacity and need for more flexibility, agility and reliability in manufacturing processes, says FDA biologics center director Peter Marks; he also discussed differences in data review for vaccine BLAs relative to EUAs.
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