Co-Development Guidance Gives More Attention To IND, NDA/BLA Submissions
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
In a final guidance on co-development of two or more investigational new drugs for use in combination, FDA lays out general principles for IND and marketing application submissions, a topic on which the agency essentially punted in a December 2010 draft document.
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