Predictive validity in drug discovery: what it is, why it matters and how to improve it

JW Scannell, J Bosley, JA Hickman… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2022 - nature.com
Successful drug discovery is like finding oases of safety and efficacy in chemical and
biological deserts. Screens in disease models, and other decision tools used in drug …

An urgent call to raise the bar in oncology

JJB Schnog, MJ Samson, ROB Gans… - British Journal of Cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Important breakthroughs in medical treatments have improved outcomes for patients
suffering from several types of cancer. However, many oncological treatments approved by …

FDA approval and regulation of pharmaceuticals, 1983-2018

JJ Darrow, J Avorn, AS Kesselheim - Jama, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
Importance US law requires testing of new drugs before approval to ensure that they provide
a well-defined benefit that is commensurate with their risks. A major challenge for the US …

Association between FDA and EMA expedited approval programs and therapeutic value of new medicines: retrospective cohort study

TJ Hwang, JS Ross, KN Vokinger, AS Kesselheim - bmj, 2020 - bmj.com
Objective To characterize the therapeutic value of new drugs approved by the US Food and
Drug Administration (FDA) and European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the association …

Generating comparative evidence on new drugs and devices before approval

H Naci, M Salcher-Konrad, AS Kesselheim, B Wieseler… - The Lancet, 2020 - thelancet.com
Fewer than half of new drugs have data on their comparative benefits and harms against
existing treatment options at the time of regulatory approval in Europe and the USA. Even …

Decision making under uncertainty: comparing regulatory and health technology assessment reviews of medicines in the United States and Europe

RA Vreman, H Naci, WG Goettsch… - Clinical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Assessments of clinical evidence vary between regulators and health technology
assessment bodies, but precise differences remain unclear. To compare uncertainties raised …

Special FDA designations for drug development: orphan, fast track, accelerated approval, priority review, and breakthrough therapy

DT Michaeli, T Michaeli, S Albers, T Boch… - The European Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Background Over the past decades, US Congress enabled the US Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) to facilitate and expedite drug development for serious conditions …

Clinical benefit, development, innovation, trials, epidemiology, and price for cancer drugs and indications with multiple special FDA designations

DT Michaeli, T Michaeli, S Albers… - JNCI: Journal of the …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Background This study analyzes the development, US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
approval, benefits, innovation, trials, epidemiology, and price of cancer drugs with multiple …

Evidence of pre-approval clinical trial supporting the granted conditional approval for novel cancer drugs in China between 2015 and 2022

X Luo, X Du, L Huang, Q Guo, X Lv, C Wang… - …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background Accelerated approval (AA) of novel anticancer drugs based on surrogacy has
attracted considerable concern globally. China National Medical Products Administration …

Real-world evidence in support of oncology product registration: a systematic review of new drug application and biologics license application approvals from 2015 …

B Arondekar, MS Duh, RH Bhak, M DerSarkissian… - Clinical Cancer …, 2022 - AACR
Real-world evidence (RWE) has garnered great interest to support registration of new
therapies and label expansions by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) …