Strategic planning in Regulatory Affairs
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TOPRA module 1
Strategic planning in Regulatory Affairs
ENABLING AND PROMOTING EXCELLENCE IN THE HEALTHCARE REGULATORY PROFESSIONENABLING AND PROMOTING EXCELLENCE IN THE HEALTHCARE REGULATORY PROFESSIONENABLING AND PROMOTING EXCELLENCE IN THE HEALTHCARE REGULATORY PROFESSION
AffairsA presentation by Christine Degeling, Head of Regulatory Affairs, Teva Pharmachemie
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� Understand the importance of a regulatory strategy
� Understand which factors play a role in designing a regulatory strategy
Learning Outcomes
strategy
� Understand how current trends in pharmaceutical industry may influence the regulatory strategy
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� What is a regulatory strategy?
� Why and when is a regulatory strategy needed?
In This presentation we will cover
� The aspects of a regulatory strategy
� What are the current trends in pharmaceutical industry?
� How will these trends in pharmaceutical industry affect theregulatory strategy?
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• Strategic planning:
• Process of defining strategy or direction
• Making decisions on resources to pursue this strategy.
What is a Regulatory Strategy?
• Making decisions on resources to pursue this strategy.
• control mechanisms for guiding the implementation of the strategy.
• Involves many parties and research sources in the analysis of the goal, the organization and its relationship to the environment in which it competes.
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• Regulatory Strategy:
• Plan for developing the product with the goal of obtaining regulatory approval in desired markets
What is a Regulatory Strategy?
• Plan for lifecycle management/maintenance post approval
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• For alignment of development, commercial and regulatory goals:• Development: CMC, non-clinical and clinical development plan
Why a Regulatory Strategy?
plan
• Commercial: key product label attributes and positioning
• Regulatory: scientific advice, procedure, legal basis, exclusivity
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• Understand the regulatory landscape• Guidelines
• Stakeholders
• Emerging policies
Why a Regulatory Strategy?
• Emerging policies
• Precedence
• Drive the development and identify hurdles so they can be solved proactively
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Tracking tool: summarize key agreements with project team and with authorities
Planning tool: documentation of timelines and topics to be discussed with health authorities
Why a Regulatory Strategy?
be discussed with health authorities
Risk register: keep track of issues that may affect timelines, costs or commercial value
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• Always……• Development: new molecular entities (chemical and biopharmaceutical), drug rediscovery
• Lifecycle management: maintenance of existing products,
When a Regulatory Strategy?
• Lifecycle management: maintenance of existing products, new indications, new API suppliers, new markets, line-extensions, site transfers
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• Start early in development, e.g. before regulatory non-clinical studies
• Start with the end in mind, e.g. with a target product profile
When a Regulatory Strategy?
profile
• Regulatory strategy should be a living document
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• Overview of guidelines and precedents: covered in the lecture on regulatory intelligence
• Plan for interaction with authorities: covered in the lecture on scientific advice
Aspects of a Regulatory Strategy
lecture on scientific advice
• Knowledge on requirements in the regions of interest
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• Key product label attributes
• External influencing
• Global submission strategy: know the requirements in each region
Aspects of a Regulatory Strategy
region
• Pharmacoeconomics
• Target submission and approval dates
• Options for accelerated approval pathways: covered in the lectures for the various regions
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Provides guidance on how to work with other disciplines: covered in the lecture on project management
Aspects of a Regulatory Strategy
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What is designing a regulatory strategy about?
Aspects of a Regulatory Strategy
or
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Design of a regulatory strategy requires the regulatoryprofessional to have:
a certain degree of technical and scientific know-howAND
Aspects of a Regulatory Strategy
AND
Soft skills:
• Negotiation skills
• Problem-solving
• Creativity and flexibility
• Understanding of and insight in interests of stakeholders
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• Personalised medicine
• Shift to emerging markets
• Unmet medical need: Alzheimer’s disease, obesity/diabetes type II
Trends in Pharmaceutical Industry
obesity/diabetes type II
• Need for prevention of diseases versus treatment (vaccines for developing countries, e.g. malaria)
• Companion diagnostics
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• Mergers and acquisitions
• In- and out-licensing
• A big pharma company handles the strategic planning differently than a small enterprise
Trends in Pharmaceutical Industry
differently than a small enterprise
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• For personalised medicine, a different regulatorystrategy is needed when compared to a blockbuster.
Effect of Trends on theRegulatory Strategy
How?
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• Emerging markets are also in the picture fordevelopment and manufacturing activities hencerequiring management skills.
Effects of trends on the Regulatory Strategy
What are the specifics in the regulatory strategy?
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• A drug is developed for an unmet medical need.
What are the strategically important aspects?
Effects of Trend on the Regulatory Strategy
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�Why and when is a regulatory strategy needed?
�The aspects of a regulatory strategy
�What are the current trends in pharmaceutical
In This presentation we covered
�What are the current trends in pharmaceuticalindustry?
�How will these trends in pharmaceutical industryaffect the regulatory strategy?
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� TOPRA Regulatory Rapporteur February 2014
� Worldwide Update, FDA and NIH heads outline plan for personalised medicine; RAJ Vol 21 No 8 August 2010, page
Recommended references
personalised medicine; RAJ Vol 21 No 8 August 2010, page 520
� Porter M.E. (1980) Competitive Strategy; Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors. London, Free Press
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� Regulatory strategy is indispensible
� As a regulatory professional you are in a uniqueposition:
Take home message
position:
● You can influence company policy
● You are an active stakeholder in company policy, development and life cycle management
● You contribute to the success of your company!
● You have added value
� It is an underestimation to consider the regulatoryprofession only as filling out forms and shoving paperaround.
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QUESTIONS?