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ReviewJournal of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics2019

Orphan drug development: the increasing role of clinical pharmacology.

Mariam A Ahmed, Malek Okour, Richard Brundage, Reena V Kartha

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Review in Journal of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Mariam A AhmedDepartment of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, MN, USA. ahmed452@umn.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1229-7353
Malek OkourClinical Pharmacology Modeling and Simulation (CPMS), GlaxoSmithKline, Upper Providence, PA, USA.
Richard BrundageDepartment of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, MN, USA.
Reena V KarthaDepartment of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, MN, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Over the last few decades there has been a paradigm shift in orphan drug research and development. The development of the regulatory framework, establishment of rare disease global networks that support drug developments, and advances in technology, has resulted in tremendous growth in orphan drug development. Nevertheless, several challenges during orphan drug development such as economic constraints; insufficient clinical information; fewer patients and thus inadequate power; etc. still exist. While the standard regulatory requirements for drug approval stays the same, applications of scientific judgment and regulatory flexibility is significantly important to help meeting some of the immense unmet medical need in rare diseases. Clinical pharmacology presents a vital role in accelerating orphan drug development and overcoming some of these challenges. This review highlights the critical contributions of clinical pharmacology in orphan drug development; for example, dose finding, optimizing clinical trial design, indication expansion, and population extrapolation. Examples of such applications are reviewed in this article.

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Pharmacology, ClinicalDrug ApprovalHumansOrphan Drug ProductionUnited StatesUnited States Food and Drug AdministrationModel informed drug discovery and developmentModeling and simulationsOrphan drugsRare diseases

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