Today, developers of innovative medical devices are increasingly utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies to derive important insights with the promise of transforming the delivery of healthcare. Yet, concerns regarding the transparency of AI/ML-enabled devices, or the degree to which information about such devices is communicated to…
Showing no signs of food coma, the FDA issued draft guidance on the Monday following the Thanksgiving holiday weekend that outlines considerations for sponsors proposing to design a registry or use an existing registry to support regulatory decision-making about a drug’s effectiveness or safety. This draft guidance represents the Agency’s…
Last week, Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Fred Upton (R-MI) introduced in the House highly anticipated bill language for “Cures 2.0”, a follow-up to the transformational 21st Century Cures Act enacted in 2016. For full text of the bill, click here. The 21st Century Cures Act included a variety of measures…
On October 27, 2021, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Health Canada and the United Kingdom’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) issued a set of ten guiding principles meant to aid the development of Good Machine Learning Practice (GMLP). Artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) offers the…
For emerging companies establishing their first supply chains, ensuring notification requirements in supply agreements for when commercial-stage manufacturing issues arise may not be top of mind. However, it is important for drug developers whose contracts enable continuation of a supply arrangement into the commercial-stage to be familiar with the U.S….
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) now provides a list of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML)-Enabled Medical Devices that are legally marketed in the United States. These include devices (1) cleared via 510(k) premarket notifications, (2) authorized pursuant to De Novo requests, and (3) approved via premarket approval applications, or…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Office of Bioresearch Monitoring Operations (OBIMO) oversees domestic and foreign agency field inspections for clinical and non-clinical research. In particular, OBIMO manages the Bioresearch Monitoring (BIMO) Program which conducts onsite field inspections and data monitoring to ensure institution and industry compliance with FDA’s…
The Biden Administration’s withdrawal of the Trump Administration’s proposal to exempt 84 medical device types from the FDA’s premarket notification, or 510(k), requirement, underscores the promotional framework that developers and marketers of these devices are subject to. The Trump Administration proposal included devices critical to combating the COVID-19 public health…
Developing a new drug or biologic is a complex process. Based on our extensive experience advising early-stage and clinical-stage companies, the Goodwin FDA team created this “scorecard” for companies to use as a guide as they navigate the FDA drug development and approval process. The drug development scorecard (or checklist)…
On May 19, 2021, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released an updated guidance in draft form on how to complete the Statement of Investigator form (Form FDA 1572). The guidance addresses frequently asked questions from sponsors, clinical investigators, and institutional review boards (IRBs), and it provides new information…
