Economics of New Drug Development and Approval
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (14 February 2014) | Viewed by 15295
Special Issue Editor
Interests: biopharmaceutical R&D costs; risks; and time; drug and biologics regulation; innovation incentives; economic structure of the biopharmaceutical industry
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The development of new drugs is an important source of medical innovation. It is also exceptionally lengthy, risky, and costly. The economics of the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries are driven, to a large extent, by these realities. That has led to numerous regulatory programs and policies designed with the hope that the regulatory approval process will be streamlined while maintaining review standards and also that the development of important new therapies will be facilitated. Industry, for its part, has experimented in recent years with reorganizing internal R&D activities and developing new models of interacting with academic medical centers, non-profit institutes, government agencies, and with each other. This issue welcomes articles on policies, programs, and processes that can affect incentives to develop new drugs and biologics, and generally on development, regulatory, promotional, and market processes that impact the economics of new drug development and approval.
Dr. Joseph A. DiMasi
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- pharmaceutical R&D processes
- drug regulatory approval policies
- incentives for pharmaceutical innovation
- metrics on new drug development and approval
- medical and economic impact of new drug development
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