[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 249 (Wednesday, December 28, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 81513-81514]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-33220]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Food and Drug Administration
[Docket No. FDA-2011-N-0002]
Cellular, Tissue, and Gene Therapies Advisory Committee; Notice
of Meeting
AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
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This notice announces a forthcoming teleconference meeting of a
public advisory committee of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). At
least one
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portion of the meeting will be closed to the public.
Name of Committee: Cellular, Tissue, and Gene Therapies Advisory
Committee.
General Function of the Committee: To provide advice and
recommendations to the Agency on FDA's regulatory issues.
Date and Time: The teleconference meeting will be held on February
10, 2012, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. EST
Location: National Institutes of Health (NIH), 9000 Rockville Pike,
Bldg. 29B, Conference Room A-B, Bethesda, MD 20892. The public is
welcome to attend the meeting at the specified location where a
speakerphone will be provided. Public participation in the meeting is
limited to the use of the speakerphone in the conference room.
Important information about transportation and directions to the NIH
campus, parking and security procedures is available on the Internet at
http://www.nih.gov/about/visitor/index.htm. (FDA has verified the Web
site address, but FDA is not responsible for any subsequent changes to
the Web site after this document publishes in the Federal Register.)
Visitors must show two forms of identification, one of which must be a
government-issued photo identification such as a Federal employee
badge, driver's license, passport, green card, etc. Detailed
information about security procedures is located at http://www.nih.gov/about/visitorsecurity.htm. Due to the limited available parking,
visitors are encouraged to use public transportation.
Contact Person: Gail Dapolito or Sheryl Clark, Center for Biologics
Evaluation and Research (HFM-71), Food and Drug Administration, 1401
Rockville Pike, Rockville MD 20852, (301) 827-0314, or FDA Advisory
Committee Information Line, 1-(800) 741-8138 (301) 443-0572 in the
Washington, DC area), code 3014512389. Please call the Information Line
for up-to-date information on this meeting. A notice in the Federal
Register about last minute modifications that impact a previously
announced advisory committee meeting cannot always be published quickly
enough to provide timely notice. Therefore, you should always check the
Agency's Web site and call the appropriate advisory committee hot line/
phone line to learn about possible modifications before coming to the
meeting.
Agenda: On February 10, 2012, the committee will meet in open
session to hear updates of the research programs in the Cellular and
Tissue Branch, Office of Cellular, Tissue and Gene Therapies, Center
for Biologics Evaluation and Research, FDA.
FDA intends to make background material available to the public no
later than 2 business days before the meeting. If FDA is unable to post
the background material on its Web site prior to the meeting, the
background material will be made publicly available at the location of
the advisory committee meeting, and the background material will be
posted on FDA's Web site after the meeting. Background material is
available at http://www.fda.gov/AdvisoryCommittees/Calendar/default.htm. Scroll down to the appropriate advisory committee link.
Procedure: On February 10, 2012, from 2 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. (EST) the
meeting is open to the public. Interested persons may present data,
information, or views, orally or in writing, on issues pending before
the committee. Written submissions may be made to the contact person on
or before February 3, 2012. Oral presentations from the public will be
scheduled between approximately 3:15 p.m. and 4:15 p.m. Those desiring
to make formal oral presentations should notify the contact person and
submit a brief statement of the general nature of the evidence or
arguments they wish to present, the names and addresses of proposed
participants, and an indication of the approximate time requested to
make their presentation on or before January 26, 2012. Time allotted
for each presentation may be limited. If the number of registrants
requesting to speak is greater than can be reasonably accommodated
during the scheduled open public hearing session, FDA may conduct a
lottery to determine the speakers for the scheduled open public hearing
session. The contact person will notify interested persons regarding
their request to speak by January 27, 2012.
Closed Committee Deliberations: On February 10, 2012, from 4:15
p.m. to 5 p.m., the meeting will be closed to permit discussion where
disclosure would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal
privacy (5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(6)). The committee will discuss a report of
intramural research programs and make recommendations regarding
personnel staffing decisions.
Persons attending FDA's advisory committee meetings are advised
that the Agency is not responsible for providing access to electrical
outlets.
FDA welcomes the attendance of the public at its advisory committee
meetings and will make every effort to accommodate persons with
physical disabilities or special needs. If you require special
accommodations due to a disability, please contact Gail Dapolito at
least 7 days in advance of the meeting.
FDA is committed to the orderly conduct of its advisory committee
meetings. Please visit our Web site at http://www.fda.gov/AdvisoryCommittees/AboutAdvisoryCommittees/ucm111462.htm for procedures
on public conduct during advisory committee meetings.
Notice of this meeting is given under the Federal Advisory
Committee Act (5 U.S.C. app. 2).
Dated: December 21, 2011.
Leslie Kux,
Acting Assistant Commissioner for Policy.
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