Posted on: 5 November 2019, source: BloombergLaw
Patients from low- and middle-income countries will have better access to gene therapies if the U.S. and other high-income countries align their regulations for these potentially curative treatments, the FDA’s biologics chief said. “We really want to see the delivery of safe and effective gene therapies, not just in high income countries but across the globe,” Peter Marks, director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) at the Food and Drug Administration, said Nov. 4 at the American Society for Gene and Cell Therapy’s policy summit.