GMP News - Pharmaceutical Development / Clinical Trials / GCP

A new ICH topic was endorsed by the ICH Management Committee in November 2018. Read more about the proposed new ICH M11 guideline Clinical electronic Structured Harmonized Protocol (CeSHarP).

On the MHRA Inspectorate blog a new post has just been published emphasizing that according to GCP dose escalation practices should be the same regardless of whether a clinical trial involves healthy volunteers or patients. Read more about "Dose Escalation - is it GCP compliant?"

Data integrity plays an exceptional role in clinical studies. On 23-24 October, 2018, the US FDA and the British MHRA hosted a joint workshop on this topic. Learn more about the contents and results of the joint workshop "Good Clinical Practice: Data Integrity in Global Clinical Trials - Are we there yet?"

In the latest edition of the Pharmacopoeial Forum 44(6), the US pharmacopoeia USP has published a so-called Stimuli Article on pharmaceutical continuous manufacturing. Apart from important definitions, the document contains further information on material properties and characteristics as well as risk management approaches for continuous manufacturing.

In October 2018, the FDA published a new draft guidance with recommendations for a possible requalification of donors who had been deferred because of reactive test results for antibodies to Human T-Lymphotropic Virus Types I and II (anti-HTLV-I/II). Read more about the requalification method under 21 CFR 610.41.

The MHRA released a joint statement setting out the legal and ethical requirements for documenting consent using electronic methods. Read more about the MHRA´s view of seeking consent electronically (eConsent).

Relating to the increasing need of simultaneously evaluatation of more than one investigational drug and/or more than one cancer type in one clinical trial, the FDA published a new guidance on Efficient Clinical Trial Design Strategies to Expedite Development of Oncology Drugs and Biologics.