About the Author
My name is Mark Senak. I’m a lawyer and I work at the international communications firm FleishmanHillard in New York. For the past several years, I have been consulting with pharmaceutical and biologic companies that are engaged in the process of bringing new drugs to market. I have also worked extensively with an array of medical societies and patient organizations providing strategic communications counsel and media training.
Tag Archives: Drug Approvals
Big Decisions – Reviewing FDA Advisory Committee Outcomes Since 2020
In January we took a look at FDA Advisory Committees (AdComms) – FDA AdComms – When the Going Gets Tough – noting, among other things that there had not only been fewer meetings but also that it appeared that the … Continue reading
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Tagged AdCom, AdComm, AdComms, Drug Approvals, Pharma
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Approvals in the Crazy Year of 2020
Each year in January, it is relevant to look back on the activities of FDA during the course of the previous year and look at how it was the same or different from prior years, and to look at trends … Continue reading
Posted in Advisory Committee Prepapartion, FDA Image, FDA Policy
Tagged #pharma, Drug Approvals
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Look Back – Drug Approvals First Half of 2020 Amidst the COVID Challenge
As the year began, no one really thought that within a few months, the systems upon which we rely on for just about everything would be so severely disrupted and tested by the presence of something we cannot even see … Continue reading
Posted in Approval Announcements, FDA Policy
Tagged Drug Approvals, FDA, Pharma
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AdComm Drop-off in 2019 – FDA Consults Fewer Experts in 2019
The system of FDA Advisory Committees is in place so that when FDA needs advice – either on policy development, reviewing an issue with an already approved medicine, or regarding new drug approvals – the agency has a lot of … Continue reading
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Tagged AdComms, Advisory Committees, Drug Approvals, FDA
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Sorting it Out – FDA AdComm Review for 2018
In 2017, the Advisory Committees voted to recommend approval 71.4 percent of the time; in 2018 it was 66.6 percent. Continue reading