FDA Shares Drug-Making Lessons: Workshop Seeks Feedback
Published Date: 8/19/2025
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Summary
The FDA is hosting a virtual workshop to share what they’ve learned from a special pilot program that helps speed up the chemistry and manufacturing steps for new drugs. This affects drug makers and patients waiting for faster access to promising treatments. The workshop will gather feedback to improve future policies, aiming to make drug development quicker and smoother without extra costs or delays.
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FDA Workshop on Speeding Drug Manufacturing
The FDA is hosting a virtual public workshop called the CMC Development and Readiness Pilot (CDRP) Lessons Learned meeting to share sponsor and Agency experience under the pilot and to collect feedback. The workshop will solicit input on future FDA policy and programs to help facilitate expedited chemistry, manufacturing, and controls (CMC) development of products under an investigational new drug application (IND).
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