Early-stage Regulatory Affairs

A detailed understanding of the regulatory landscape and strong working relationships with the relevant agencies are essential to avoid costly delays to your drug development programme.

Build the regulatory case behind your development programme

A solid regulatory strategy, defined in the earliest stage of your programme helps ensure a smooth path to and through the clinic. Our drug development team are here to help, ensuring that a fully compliant solid regulatory strategy is incorporated from the get-go, starting with the development plan. 

We don’t only know the regulations inside out, we understand how to apply them to your unique therapeutic product and solve any issues that may come up along the way. 

Our regulatory experts work alongside your team from the beginning. We help shape the development plan, clarify the regulatory position, support early interactions with the regulators (including scientific advice, pre-IND, INTERACT and ITF meetings), and generate all the documents required for your clinical trial application.

From scientific questions to regulatory advice

Prepare

Our experts audit your current data package, identify regulatory questions based on defined clinical milestones and define what you need from the agency interaction.

Engage

Our team generate the briefing package, including regulatory questions along with the company’s positions. We will file the dossier with the regulatory agency(ies) and prepare you for and actively participate in the meeting.

Act

We prepare the meeting minutes and interpret the agency’s feedback, update the regulatory strategy and translate their expectations into clear development actions.

From regulatory advice to clinical trial application

Six ways our experts turn complex evidence into a clear and well-supported regulatory position.

01. Regulatory pathway planning

We help you define the regulatory route, key milestones and agency interactions needed to support your intended clinical programme and keep development moving.

02. Scientific advice preparation

Our experts help you prepare for scientific advice and pre-IND meetings, ensuring key questions, supporting evidence and development plans are presented clearly to authorities.

03. Operational support

Our experts support regulatory compliance across the pharmacology, toxicology, CMC and clinical aspects of your development plan, keeping activities aligned throughout the programme.

04. Critical gap analysis

We assess non-clinical and CMC evidence to identify missing data, inconsistencies and weak justifications that could affect regulatory review or delay your application.

05. Clinical trial application

Our experts prepare the complete clinical trial application dossier, coordinate the required documentation and manage the submission process through to the authority’s decision.

06. Authority response management

We review regulatory authority requests, coordinate input from relevant experts and prepare clear, evidence-based responses that address concerns and keep the process moving.

Regulatory decisions need developers who understand the science

Regulatory affairs require people who understand how pharmacology, toxicology, CMC and clinical decisions fit together, and how authorities are likely to assess them. Our developers bring hands-on experience across product types, development stages and regulatory pathways. They identify the question behind the question, challenge weak assumptions and turn complex evidence into a clear regulatory position. You work directly with our senior development experts who stay with you from early strategy definition through to agency interactions and submissions. 

Support for key regulatory milestones

Our support can include: 

  • Scientific advice and pre-IND briefing packages 
  • Investigator’s brochures (IB) 
  • Investigational medicinal product dossiers (IMPD) 
  • Investigational new drug (IND) Application 
  • Common technical document sections 
  • Orphan drug designation applications 
  • Paediatric investigation plan (PIP) and initial Paediatric Study Plan (iPSP) 
  • Product and ATMP classification requests 
  • Responses to regulatory authority’s RFIs 

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