ABPI publishes new roadmap to aid in ATMP development
The roadmap clarifies the processes to develop advanced therapy medicinal products (ATMPs), providing guidance on key considerations.
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The roadmap clarifies the processes to develop advanced therapy medicinal products (ATMPs), providing guidance on key considerations.
Advanced therapies are a ground-breaking new class of medicines that use gene therapy, cell therapy or tissue engineering to treat disease and injury. Rachel Bell, Trainee Patent Attorney at Marks & Clerk, and Ceri Roberts, Scientific Training Manager – Cellular and Molecular Therapies at NHS Blood and Transplant, discuss some…
New guidance on the licensing of biosimilar products that reduces unnecessary clinical trials is expected to put the UK ahead of Europe and facilitate a boom in these essential life-saving medicines, creating greater patient access and saving the National Health Service (NHS) hundreds of millions of pounds. It could also…
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The British Generic Manufacturers Association, the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI), and the UK BioIndustry Association (BIA) have joined forces to welcome NHS England’s new publication “What is a biosimilar medicine?”.