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…
Goodwin Life Sciences and Healthcare partner Roger Cohen and associate Anne Brendel along with Life Sciences and FDA associate Steven Tjoe kicked off Goodwin’s multi-part webinar series “Disrupt + Innovate + Transform: A Healthcare Webinar Series” with “Key Regulatory Issues for Digital Health Companies” discussing the key regulatory issues affecting…
Last month, the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) issued additional guidance on the application of the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) in the area of scientific health research. You can read our summary of the key takeaways here. While the EDPB’s responses offer some clarifications, many obstacles and complications remain…
Despite the turmoil and disruption of 2020, plaintiffs’ lawyers and courts appear to have adapted readily to our “new normal.” Although at lower rates than previous years, plaintiffs’ firms continued to file securities class actions against publicly traded pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device and healthcare product and services companies in 2020,…
Given the breadth of clinical-stage companies that the Goodwin FDA and Healthcare teams advise, our regulatory attorneys together with our commercial contracting, products liability and insurance attorneys play an integral role in counseling clinical-stage companies on matters related to the conduct of clinical trials. Learn more about our…
On February 3, 2021 Goodwin FDA Regulatory partner, Julie Tibbets, Products Litigation + Counseling partner, Nilda Isidro, and Risk Management & Insurance counsel Brian Mukherjee discussed what drug and biologic companies with late-stage product candidates can do to best position their products to mitigate the risks that come with transitioning from clinical trials to…
On January 19, 2021, the FDA issued guidance for licensed and investigational cellular and gene therapy (CGT) manufacturers during the COVID-19 pandemic. This new guidance supplements the recommendations provided in FDA’s June 2020 guidance regarding manufacturing controls to prevent contamination in drugs, risk assessment of SARS-CoV-2 as it relates to…
On January 12, 2021, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published its Action Plan for further development of the Agency’s framework for regulatory oversight of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) based Software as a Medical Device (SaMD). The Action Plan identifies several opportunities for SaMD developers to…
As follow-up to our October post on pre-approval and pre-licensure inspections impacting U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) drug and biologic approvals, this blog post discusses FDA’s recently announced temporary policy set forth in its December 2020 guidance on review timelines for company responses to a Complete Response letter (CRL)…
On December 27, 2020, the President signed into law the “Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021” (the “Act”). Included within this omnibus legislation are several provisions (in Division BB, Title III, Subtitle C) that affect the regulation of generic drugs and biosimilar medicines by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Read…
