FDA has published a guidance for industry on an optional streamlined submission process for determining whether investigational in vitro diagnostic in clinical trials for an oncology therapeutic is considered significant risk, nonsignificant risk, or exempt from investigational device exemption requirements.
Last week, Richard Pazdur was named to the position of director of FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. Much has been written about how Pazdur, with nearly a three-decade long career at the agency, represents a stabilizing choice for FDA as it faces inner and outer turmoil.
