All Regulatory Rapporteur articles in March 2025
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JournalImmunological considerations in the development of novel vaccines
Part 1 of this series explored the elements of the immune response that are important to vaccine effectiveness. Part 2 looks at how understanding of the immune response supports prediction of vaccine effectiveness and can optimise clinical development of vaccines. The article then goes on to look at the impact of population diversity.
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JournalThe EU’s Health Technology Assessment Regulation: Overview and considerations for regulatory teams
The EU’s Health Technology Assessment Regulation (EU-HTAR) demonstrates a significant transformation in how health technologies are evaluated across EU member states (MS). The regulation, which came into effect on 12 January 2025, establishes a partnership between the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and national Health Technology Assessment (HTA) bodies through introducing joint clinical assessments (JCAs) and joint scientific consultations (JSCs).
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JournalUsing data to drive regulatory performance
Life sciences companies, whether they are pharma, biotech, MedTech or diagnostic, all aim to get products to patients as quickly and efficiently as possible. To do so, they rely on knowledge of their regulatory ecosystem (henceforth referred to as regulatory intelligence).
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JournalArtificial intelligence and post-market surveillance
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a force that is both feared and revered for promising revolutionary improvements in many fields. While tools like ChatGPT may create an impression of AI being easy to use, such wide AI applications are prone to hallucinations, or misleading information, and therefore can be dangerous in the context of post-market surveillance (PMS). The more accurate narrow AI tools for PMS do not yet exist, but hold a lot of promise for the future. The solution for effective PMS by AI will require restructuring data into appropriate formats for machine learning (ML).
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JournalAI adoption readiness: Current status and trends in regulatory organisations
There is no doubt that artificial intelligence (AI) and other advanced technologies (AT) will add significant value to global regulatory practices over time. However, it is still unclear how and when integration to a trusted level with attractive business benefits will be achieved for most organisations.
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JournalOrganising high quality research and development data for success
Regulatory functions have long discussed the quality of the data in regulatory information management (RIM) systems, and various data entry models have waxed and waned over the years. According to current research, there is no correlation between the data entry model and the quality of the data in RIM systems. However, this article argues that managing data in research and development (R&D) silos is the key reason for variable data quality across the R&D data value chain, and that a change in how R&D operations functions are organised could be the secret to success.
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