Today FDA announced that it will hold a public meeting on October 20, 2016 to discuss its proposed recommendations for the reauthorization of the Biosimilar User Fee Act, which permits FDA to collect fees and use them for the process for the review of aBLAs. The current legislative authority for BsUFA…
The FDA has announced the rates for biosimilar user fees for the 2017 Fiscal Year: FY17 BsUFA Fees Biological Product Development Initial $203,810 Annual $203,810 Application w/Clinical Data $2,038,100 w/o Clinical Data $1,019,050 Supplement w/Clinical Data $1,019,050 Product $97,750 Establishment $512,200 Reactivation $407,620 The biosimilar user fees for a given fiscal year…
Earlier this month we reported that FDA had published a notice in the Federal Register soliciting comments on a proposed biologic naming guidance whereby applicants for biologic products would submit up to 10 proposed four-letter suffixes and, optionally, analyses supporting those suffixes. FDA has now announced that it is withdrawing…
The FDA has extended the public comment period for its draft guidance “Labeling for Biosimilar Products: Guidance for Industry” by 60 days, to August 2, 2016: https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2016/06/06/2016-13223/labeling-for-biosimilar-products-draft-guidance-for-industry-availability-extension-of-comment
The FDA recently requested comment on its draft guidance for implementation of the “deemed to be a license” provision as described in section 7002(e) of the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act of 2009 (“BPCI Act”). Section 7002(e) addresses the circumstances under which an application filed under section 505 of…
In a recent meeting, the FDA proposed modifications to the application review process for possible implementation into the Biosimilar User Fee Act (BsUFA). These modifications included establishing a review model similar to “the Program” initiated under the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA). Highlights include a mid-cycle communication, a late-cycle…
The Biosimilar User Fee Act (BsUFA) requires FDA to contract with an independent accounting or consulting firm to study the workload volume and full costs associated with the process for the review of biosimilar biological product applications. On February 24, 2016, the FDA released the Final Results Report of its…
The House Energy & Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Health met this morning to discuss implementation of the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act. Sean Cavanaugh, Deputy Administrator and Director of the Center for Medicare, and Janet Woodcock, Director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, testified. The subcommittee’s questioning…
Today, the FDA released the latest version of its Guidance Agenda for the upcoming year. Among the new and revised draft guidances that CDER plans to release are the following three guidances concerning biosimilarity: Considerations in Demonstrating Interchangeability With a Reference Product Labeling for Biosimilar Products Statistical Approaches to Evaluation…
FDA recently proposed a new biosimilar naming convention, whereby the nonproprietary name for a biological product would require a new, random four-letter suffix. The new naming convention is in the spirit of emphasizing that biosimilars, unlike generic drugs, are not replicas of their biologic counterpart. In its response to the…