Human Research Report Digital Newsletter
Protecting Research Subjects and Researchers
Vol. 37, No. 4, April, 2022
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Excerpt from pg. 3 … IRBs and Expansion Cohort Studies (#1)
We begin this month with coverage of an FDA guidance that affects IRBs and researchers involved in cancer research. The guidance is titled “Expansion Cohorts: Use in First-in-Human [FIH] Clinical Trials to Expedite Development of Oncology Drugs and Biologics.”
This is the final version of a draft that was issued in August of 2018.
“The purpose of this guidance is to provide advice to sponsors regarding the design and conduct of FIH clinical trials intended to efficiently expedite the clinical development of oncology drugs, including biological products, through multiple expansion cohort trial designs.
These are trial designs that employ multiple, concurrently accruing, subject cohorts, where individual cohorts assess different aspects of the safety, pharmacokinetics, and antitumor activity of the drug product” (Fed. Reg. 11720, March 2).