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Ethics in Drug Innovation: The First Hurdle is Trust
By Ansis Helmanis
Ethics is a matter of trust, which in the regulatory space requires transparency and openness among all stakeholders, including patients and industry. This was the consensus of FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg and European Medicines Agency (EMA) Executive Director Guido Rasi, both of whom shared the podium with Nobel Laureate Professor Elie Wiesel [...]
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Former EMA Head Back in the Regulatory Saddle
His decade-long tenure as head of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) may have ended, but Thomas Lönngren is already back in the regulatory saddle as a strategic advisor to NDA Group, an independent consulting group focused on reducing wasted drug development costs, ensuring new medicines get to market faster, and “improving the performance of the [...]
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Exclusive Interview: The European Medicine Agency's Thomas Lönngren
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) is a unique institution, pursuing a mandate shared with a complex web of national and regional groups, each able to place a distinctive imprint around the delicate task of certifying the safety and efficacy of new drugs. In return, EMA has made a virtue of necessity. It filled the regulatory [...]
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The Year to Come: EMA's Plans Announced