News|Articles|March 15, 2020

Pharmaceutical Technology

  • Pharmaceutical Technology-03-15-2020
  • Volume 2020 eBook
  • Issue 1

Inside FDA’s New Gene and Cell Therapy Guidances

Author(s)Agnes Shanley

In January 2020, the agency finalized six clinical development and manufacturing guidance documents and drafted new guidance on what would qualify new gene therapies as orphan drugs.

Since 2017, FDA has approved four gene therapies, and regulators expect the number of gene and cell therapies under development to increase dramatically.

Read this article in Pharmaceutical Technology’s March 2020 Regulatory Sourcebook.

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Pharmaceutical Technology
eBook: Regulatory Sourcebook, March 2020
March 2020
Pages: 6–9

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When referring to this article, please cite it as A. Shanley, “Inside FDA’s New Gene and Cell Therapy Guidances," Pharmaceutical Technology Regulatory Sourcebook eBook (March 2020).


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