2-day In-person Seminar: FDA’s GMP Expectations for Phase I and First-in-Man Clinical Trials

 The first-in-man and pilot clinical trials are usually conducted in very small number of healthy participants with lower doses primarily to establish safety and hence do not need a significant amount of investigational material. The US FDA allows developers to test early stage investigational products under relaxed GMP requirements.

The manufacturing requirements for early stage clinical trials are designed to assure adequate quality of the investigational product being tested without the excessive regulatory burden of full-scale GMP manufacturing. This workshop will present the current regulations, guidance documents and regulatory strategies available for manufacturing an early development stage product for Phase I and first-in-man clinical trials. Also discussed will be logistical issues with managing the supply of an early stage investigational product, and requirements for stability testing, storage and shipping, labeling, and documentations. Perspectives for different classes of products will be presented using case studies.

Who will Benefit:

• Directors
• Managers
• Supervisors, and lead workers in Regulatory Affairs
• Quality Assurance and Quality Control
• Workers who will prepare GMP documents for early phase products as well as those who will review these documents
• Regulatory affairs workers who will need to deal with submissions covering early phase products.

Dr. Mukesh Kumar, leads the Regulatory Affairs and Quality Assurance departments at Amarex, a full service pharmaceutical product development company based in Germantown, MD (www.amarexcro.com). His key expertise is in regulatory affairs, clinical trials and multi-national project management for medicinal and diagnostic products. He has written more than 40 new INDs for FDA submission and reviewed more than 100 INDs. He has been involved in about 100 clinical trials in more than 40 countries, has made several hundred US FDA submissions, and arranged a number of meetings with the US FDA. In addition, he has had made regulatory submission in the EU and India. He has conducted GCP, GLP, GMP and GACP audits in the US and several countries in Europe and Asia. He has conducted numerous training workshops in FDA compliance related issues. He has authored numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals. He is a well known expert in global regulatory affairs and has been an invited speaker at several professional and academic organizations worldwide. Dr. Kumar is a PhD in Biochemistry and has worked as a research scientist at the NIH, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, and premier institutions in India. He is a certified regulatory affairs professional by the Regulatory Affairs Professional Society, USA.