[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 77 (Monday, April 24, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Page 18913]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-08183]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Food and Drug Administration
[Docket No. FDA-2014-N-0179]
Training Program for Regulatory Project Managers; Information
Available to Industry
AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) Center for Drug
Evaluation and Research (CDER) is announcing the continuation of the
Regulatory Project Management Site Tours and Regulatory Interaction
Program (the Site Tours Program). The purpose of this document is to
invite pharmaceutical companies interested in participating in this
program to contact CDER.
DATES: Pharmaceutical companies may send proposed agendas to the Agency
by June 23, 2017.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dan Brum, Center for Drug Evaluation
and Research, Food and Drug Administration, 10903 New Hampshire Ave.,
Bldg. 22, Rm. 5480, Silver Spring, MD 20993-0002, 301-796-0578,
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
An important part of CDER's commitment to make safe and effective
drugs available to all Americans is optimizing the efficiency and
quality of the drug review process. To support this primary goal, CDER
has initiated various training and development programs to promote high
performance in its regulatory project management staff. CDER seeks to
significantly enhance review efficiency and review quality by providing
the staff with a better understanding of the pharmaceutical industry
and its operations. To this end, CDER is continuing its training
program to give regulatory project managers the opportunity to tour
pharmaceutical facilities. The goals are to provide the following: (1)
Firsthand exposure to industry's drug development processes and (2) a
venue for sharing information about project management procedures (but
not drug-specific information) with industry representatives.
II. The Site Tours Program
In this program, over a 2- to 3-day period, small groups (five or
less) of regulatory project managers, including a senior level
regulatory project manager, can observe operations of pharmaceutical
manufacturing and/or packaging facilities, pathology/toxicology
laboratories, and regulatory affairs operations. Neither this tour nor
any part of the program is intended as a mechanism to inspect, assess,
judge, or perform a regulatory function, but is meant rather to improve
mutual understanding and to provide an avenue for open dialogue. During
the Site Tours Program, regulatory project managers will also
participate in daily workshops with their industry counterparts,
focusing on selective regulatory issues important to both CDER staff
and industry. The primary objective of the daily workshops is to learn
about the team approach to drug development, including drug discovery,
preclinical evaluation, tracking mechanisms, and regulatory submission
operations. The overall benefit to regulatory project managers will be
exposure to project management, team techniques, and processes employed
by the pharmaceutical industry. By participating in this program, the
regulatory project manager will grow professionally by gaining a better
understanding of industry processes and procedures.
III. Site Selection
All travel expenses associated with the Site Tours Program will be
the responsibility of CDER; therefore, selection will be based on the
availability of funds and resources for each fiscal year. Selection
will also be based on firms having a favorable facility status as
determined by FDA's Office of Regulatory Affairs District Offices in
the firms' respective regions. Firms that want to learn more about this
training opportunity or that are interested in offering a site tour
should respond by sending a proposed agenda by email directly to Dan
Brum (see DATES and FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT).
Dated: April 17, 2017.
Anna K. Abram,
Deputy Commissioner for Policy, Planning, Legislation, and Analysis.
[FR Doc. 2017-08183 Filed 4-21-17; 8:45 am]
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