The Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act of 1997 provided companies six months of additional patent protection for every drug they tested in children, and after that, a nascent pediatric clinical trial infrastructure began taking shape. (scientificamerican.com)
This research expertise, along with an international clinical trials infrastructure, is being leveraged to help in the US Government's response the recent Ebola outbreak in West Africa. (hivresearch.org)
«It is exciting to be directly involved in creating an innovative clinical trial infrastructure that will yield important efficacy and safety data on novel asthma interventions,» says Dr. Jain, «I look forward to participating in this work and seeing how it directly impacts asthma patients.» (lji.org)