Background Globally, 7,000 rare diseases affecting 300 million people pose development challenges with small patient populations. Developing medicines for rare diseases requires innovation. Despite regulatory incentives, challenges for HTA [...]
Faced with increasingly complex technologies and novel evidence generation techniques, regulatory agencies are being challenged to work in new ways. There is pressure on them to be agile and [...]
The Centre for Innovation in Regulatory Science (CIRS) held a multi-stakeholder workshop that examined current regulatory and reimbursement frameworks for rare disease products (orphan drugs), reviewing how these can [...]
Background Pharmaceutical companies have been actively taking early scientific advice from health technology assessment (HTA) agencies during development, with the aim to understand the HTA evidentiary requirements. The evolving [...]
So far 2024 has been a busy year conference wise for CIRS! CIRS staff have presented work and/or moderated sessions at several conferences including DIA Europe, RAPS Euro Convergence, [...]
Background The African Medicines Regulatory Harmonisation (AMRH) Initiative was formed in 2009 and subsequently, three regional initiatives (East African Community Medicines Regulatory Harmonisation [MRH], Southern African Development Community [SADC]/ZaZiBoNa [...]
This R&D Briefing presents the results from the Centre for Innovation in Regulatory Science (CIRS) annual analysis of new active substance (NAS) approvals by six major regulatory agencies: the [...]
Introduction Over the last years, several regulatory agencies have developed risk-based approaches for the regulatory assessment of marketing authorisations of New Active Substances (NASs) as strategies to efficiently use [...]
We're delighted to present our latest Annual Report, which provides a summary of the projects, publications, multi-stakeholder workshops and Technical Fora from Regulatory and HTA workstreams undertaken in 2023. [...]
Access to information, including the assessment documents of reference national regulatory agencies (NRA), is a key enabler of regulatory risk-based decision making. It promotes an understanding of what was [...]
