12/23/2024
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On November 6th, 2024, the International Council of Harmonization (ICH) published the draft version of ICH E6(R3) Annex 2, a long awaited update to the good clinical practice (GCP) section of the ICH Harmonized Guidelines.
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In February 2025, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Human Research Protection (OHRP) released the final guidance “Institutional Review Board (IRB) Written Procedures.”
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In the ever changing world of clinical research, staying up to date with the latest guidelines and best practices is crucial. Our Major Changes in GCP from ICH E6(R2) to (R3): Road Map is designed for busy professionals who want to deepen their knowledge on GCP to help ensure they meet the highest standards of quality, safety, and compliance.
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In January 2025, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a draft guidance titled “Considerations for the Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Support Regulatory Decision-Making for Drug and Biological Products” for trial sponsors and stakeholders intending to use AI to generate data and clinical evidence.
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In March, 2025, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) released a “Reflection paper on use of real-world data (RWD) in non-interventional studies (NIS) to generate real-world evidence (RWE) for regulatory purposes” as a guidance for stakeholders on quality planning, conduct and analysis of NISs that intend to use RWD to generate RWE.
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In October 2024, The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a final guidance: “Electronic Systems, Electronic Records, and Electronic Signatures in Clinical Investigations: Questions and Answers”. It is intended for sponsors, principal investigators, institutional review boards (IRB), contracted research organizations (CRO) (all of which are considered regulated entities) and other interested clinical trial stakeholders that use electronic records and systems.
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In September 2024, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released another draft guidance titled “Considerations for Generating Clinical Evidence from Oncology Multiregional Clinical Development Programs” for sponsors intending to conduct global clinical development programs (CDP) for new cancer treatments. The guidance provides advice on using evidence obtained from multi-regional clinical trials (MRCT) to support marketing applications.
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In September 2024, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a draft guidance for industry titled: Integrating Randomized Controlled Trials for Drug and Biological Products Into Routine Clinical Practice in association with the FDA’s Real-World Evidence program. This guidance was released the day before their final guidance on Conducting Clinical Trials With Decentralized Elements, both guidance discuss the FDA’s current position on collecting health information from sources outside of the clinical research site in order to improve enrollment and protocol adherence to scheduled visits
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On September 18th, 2024, The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a final guidance document titled: “Conducting Clinical Trials with Decentralized Elements” which is intended to inform sponsors, investigators, and other clinical trial stakeholders about the proper implementation of decentralized clinical trials (DCT).