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Regulatory Rapporteur - October 2024

  • October 2024 – Contents

  • Chemistry, manufacturing and controls: accelerating development and boosting innovation

  • Breaking barriers: the future of CMC powered by AI

  • CMC regulatory considerations for paediatric formulation development

  • A comparative analysis between ICH Q2(R2) and ICH Q14

  • Revolutionising compliance with DADI: a new frontier for digital integration

  • Small interfering RNA: regulatory challenges and therapeutic potential

  • June 2024 – Contents

  • The global access battle for healthcare equity

  • Project Orbis – a sponsor’s perspective on the collaborative international review process

  • A key role for the European Medicines Agency in the European Union’s Health Technology Assessment Regulation

  • The availability of medicines post-Brexit in Malta

  • Opportunities and challenges in the Latin American pharmaceutical industry

  • The UK Responsible Person Association

  • Over two years into the new veterinary medicines rules for the EU: a reflection on where we are now

  • Comparing China Drug Master Files with the EU and US

  • March 2024 – Contents

  • Diverse and dynamic regulation in the Asia Pacific region

  • Navigating the regulatory terrain down under: trends in Australia for 2024

  • Regulatory imperatives in chemistry, manufacturing, and control for biosimilars a comprehensive analysis

  • Can the Japanese phase I study be waived?

  • Overview of digital transformation in healthcare and initiatives in Japan

  • Clinical trial design – keeping up with innovation

  • New data protection for maximum residue limits

  • December 2023 – Contents

  • Advancing global
    healthcare together

  • HM1: Update on EU new regulatory legislation − EMA, industry and others

  • HM2: Improving the odds of regulatory success

  • PS1:
    Health technology assessment –
    the new EU regulation

  • VM1:
    Horizontal legislation and
    veterinary medicine availability

  • VM2: New initiatives in regulatory science

  • MD2/IVD2:
    Medical technologies −
    a catalyst for
    regulatory innovations

  • IVD3: IVDR: Current state

  • TOPRA Annual lecture

Regulatory Rapporteur - September 2024

  • September 2024 – Contents

  • The complexities of botanical regulation

  • Botanicals and digestive enzymes demonstrate the complexity and diversity of food supplement regulations in the European Union

  • Introduction to cannabinoids: understanding UK regulation, structure, industry dynamics and charting the future

  • Borderline products and self-care in the digital age

  • What are the future prospects for antimicrobial agents?

  • Navigating drug registration in China: accelerated review policies and pathways

  • Sustainability and personal care: a regulatory view

  • May 2024 – Contents

  • Unlocking a new paradigm of healthcare through advanced therapies

  • Dr Peter Marks on reflecting innovation through FDA regulation

  • The first approval of a CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing medicinal product in the European Union: Casgevy

  • Cell gene therapy: clinical trial application procedure of CAR-T therapy in the EU

  • Near-term challenges of advanced therapy medicinal products: a maturing product class

  • Navigating the process complexities and challenges associated with EU-CTR transition applications

  • The European Association of Authorised Representatives

  • Medical device standards update: March 2024

  • RegRapPodIn Conversation with Helena Corte-Real

  • February 2024 – Contents

  • Sink or swim: the changing tides of device regulation

  • AI meets medtech:
    big opportunities
    require a
    measured approach

  • EU MDR implementation – what is changing for the medical device industry?

  • Chemical characterisation: a critical first step for medical device development

  • The rise of FemTech and why compliance is key to its success

  • Overview of medical device regulations in Canada

  • China drug master file: registration pathways and requirements

  • November 2023 – Contents

  • Editorial - November 2023

  • Overview of importation
    strategy from an
    FDA perspective
    – PLAIR vs FTZ

  • A harmonised approach to clinical data standards

  • Controlled substances development – past, present, and future

  • Access consortium: in the current submission transmission ecosystem

  • Transitioning from paper to electronic IFU for EU MDR 2017/745

  • Medical device standards update: November 2023

  • July/August 2024 – Contents

  • Sustainable pharmaceuticals

  • EMA revises the guideline for environmental risk assessment of medicinal products for human use

  • The sustainability imperative for the healthcare sector

  • The relevance of sustainability in regulatory affairs consultancies

  • UK ePI Task Force evidence review: electronic patient information leaflets (ePILs)

  • E-labelling: revolutionising the labelling landscape

  • Bengt Mattson reflects on sustainability

  • Sustainable design and manufacture in medical devices

  • April 2024 – Contents

  • Improving outcomes with data

  • Data quality, governance and sharing to enable insights and decision-making

  • Unveiling the synergy of AI’s regulatory harmony in shaping the future of biopharmaceutical progress

  • Device submissions for combination products: a data-driven perspective

  • Navigating the future of medicinal product data exchange: understanding XEVMPD

  • Choosing the right registration pathway for the China drug master file: an essential analysis of options

  • Managing risks: successful clinical development in asthma

  • RegRapPod − April 2024

  • January 2024 – Contents

  • The increasing complexity of biological medicinal products

  • Navigating early drug development investment: a detailed guide to due diligence

  • A weight of evidence approach for the non-clinical evaluation of complex biologicals

  • Innovating and harmonising access and requirements amid the global regulatory challenges of biologics

  • Cell and gene therapy – navigating complexities in CMC development for optimisation of global regulatory strategies

  • The changing face of oncology development – is cancer still ‘different’? A US perspective

  • Artificial intelligence in drug discovery

  • October 2023 – Contents

  • Veterinary medicines: the challenges of new regulation

  • Transition to the new QRD template for veterinary medicines: challenges and opportunities

  • Autogenous vaccines under Regulation (EU) 2019/6

  • Prequalification of veterinary vaccines and medicines

  • EMA activities related to antiparasitic veterinary medicinal products

  • Optimal materials selection in medical device development – a proactive biocompatibility approach