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Podcast: BioCentury This Week
Episode: Ep. 160 - Dose Optimization, Clinical Trials Diversity and QALYs
Description: Via new guidance and its Project Optimus, FDA is pushing companies to do dose-optimization studies instead of maximum-tolerated dose studies, BioCentury Executive Director Lauren Martz said on the latest BioCentury This Week podcast. Martz and colleagues discuss the burdens and benefits of the shift, in particular for biotechs. BioCentury’s editors also assess new challenges and opportunities for FDA and regulated industry now that the agency is starting to implement PDUFA VII and mandates from the spending bill passed by Congress late last year, including clinical trials diversity, and analyze a move in the House of Representatives to ban th...