Introduction to Drug Development and the
IND Process

  • FDA Organization and Role
  • Overview of Drug Development
  • Discovery and Development Milestones
  • The IND Process
  • Special Considerations for IND's
  • Recent Changes
  • Maintaining IND's
  • Key Decisions in Drug Development
  • FDA Interactions
  • Accelerated Development Options
  • Regulatory Intelligence


Meeting the Regulatory Requirements for New Drug Applications (NDA's) in the Common Technical Document (CTD) format.

Day 1:

Meeting the Regulatory Requirements for NDA's

  • FDA Organization and Role
  • Organization and Content of NDA's and BLA's in the CTD format
  • FDA Review of NDA's and BLA's
  • Recent Changes
  • Regulatory Intelligence

Day 2:

Preparing for the NDA Submission

A real-time exercise during which the company begins to fill in the Table of Contents of the NDA, assembles the    documents available thus far and starts to plan for the submission.