Ep. 337 - FDA’s Moving Goalposts & China’s Innovation Arc

A baffling decision by FDA to issue a complete response letter for a pediatric medicine the medical community stood behind is just the latest example raising concerns that the agency is shifting the regulatory goalposts amid a lack of transparency. On the latest BioCentury This Week podcast, Washington Editor Steve Usdin explains how the absence of advisory committee meetings at FDA is in part to blame for a lack of consistency in decision-making and divergence from decisions taken by other global regulatory agencies. VP and Editor-in-Chief Simone Fishburn then discusses the takeaways from Franck Le Deu’s guest commentary on how China’s biotech ecosystem is evolving, and whether government support for the sector is helping or hindering its overall health. BioCentury’s analysts also discuss whether conventional CRISPR therapies will ever be commercially successful, and what’s next for NLRP3 inhibitors to treat obesity following the first set of Phase II data for the class.We'd also like to invite our listeners to participate in our important survey about their experiences interacting with FDA. To take the survey, please go to BioCentury's FDA Sentiment Survey. This episode of the BioCentury This Week podcast is brought to you by Voyager Therapeutics.View full story: https://www.biocentury.com/article/657698#FDARegulation #CRISPRTherapies #NLRP3Inhibitors #ChinaBiotech #DrugApproval00:01 - Sponsor Message: Voyager Therapeutics01:31 - FDA Sydnexis CRL07:36 - CDC Vaccine Claims09:55 - China’s Innovation Arc16:49 - CRISPR Commercial Viability 26:39 - NLRP3 for ObesityTo submit a question to BioCentury’s editors, email the BioCentury This Week team at [email protected] us by sending a text