Co-development of Targeted Therapies and Companion Diagnostics: Identifying Regulatory Strategies to Overcome Challenges
Track
:
Track 09: Medical Devices, In Vitro Diagnostics, and Combination Products
Program Code:
255
Date:
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Time:
1:45 PM to 3:15 PM
EST
Location:
253C
CHAIR
:
Janet Jenkins-Showalter, (SCHNON), Senior Regulatory Group Director, Regulatory Policy and Intelligence, Genentech, A Member of the Roche Group, United States
Since 2003, responsible for Roche Genentech regulatory policy, strategy. and intelligence. Prior to that, policy advisor at the FDA, responsible for managing international harmonization activities, including ICH, and for leading CDRH legislative and regulatory policy initiatives.
SPEAKER
(S):
Jeff Allen, PhD (SPKSUP), Executive Director, Friends of Cancer Research, United States
Jeff Allen, Ph.D., serves as the Executive Director of Friends of Cancer Research, a cancer research think tank based in Washington, D.C. that through policy and education brings together key stakeholders to overcome the barriers standing between patients and the most promising cancer treatments.
Erling Thor Donnelly, PhD,RAC (SPKNON), Manager, Worldwide Regulatory Strategy, Pfizer Inc, United States
Dr. Donnelly is Dir., Worldwide Regulatory Strategy- Oncology at Pfizer Inc & the Global Regulatory Lead for XALKORI (crizotinib), a kinase inhibitor recently approved for the treatment of anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK)-positive advanced NSCLC. He has a PhD in Pharmacology from Yale.
Shayesteh is founder of SFL consulting located in Switzerland and UK providing with her team comprehensive regulatory, legal, public affairs and communication support to life science companies. She is in Program Committee in Euromeeting 2013 and chairs the Combination Product Group at EuropaBio.
Description
FDA released a draft guidance in July 2011 that outlined the basics on developing targeted therapies and companion diagnostics, but it left many questions unanswered. This session will discuss potential approaches to address these remaining questions.