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International Regulatory Convergence: Regulatory Science to Address Challenges Brought by Pharmaceutical Innovation
Session Chair(s)
Antonio Barra Torres, MD
President Director
ANVISA, Brazil
Innovative approaches have the potential to create new opportunities for patients, but they also bring challenges to regulators, called to evaluate, and supervise products for which traditional regulatory approaches might not be appropriate. Global regulators will discuss how regulatory science is key to develop solutions and how regulators worldwide need to work together to overcome such challenges.
Learning Objective : Explore how to make faster progress with translating regulatory science research outputs into practice, for accelerating and improving medicine development and use; Discuss generalizable success stories and examples with challenges to an efficient translation; Describe and critically review hurdles and success factors.
Speaker(s)
Promoting International Regulatory Convergence Through Regulatory Science
Emer Cooke, MBA, MSc
European Medicines Agency, Netherlands
Chair, ICMRA; Executive Director
Path for Future Collaboration Utilizing Regulatory Science
Yasuhiro Fujiwara, MD, PhD
Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency (PMDA), Japan
Chief Executive
Regulatory Science Impact Stories
Robert M. Califf, MD
FDA, United States
Commissioner
ICMRA Summit 2023: Regulators Working Together Towards the Future
Anthony Lawler, MD, MBA
Therapeutic Goods Administration, Australia
Deputy Secretary, Health Products Regulation Group
Panelist
Alison Cave, PhD
Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), United Kingdom
Chief Safety Officer
Panelist
Pamela Aung-Thin
Health Canada, Canada
Assistant Deputy Minister of the Health Products and Food Branch
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