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Ned Sharpless
Norman "Ned" Sharpless, MD — former Director of the National Cancer Institute and former Acting FDA Commissioner, now advisor and commentator on cancer research and FDA policy.
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Jul 31, 2025
363: What Vinay Prasad’s ouster means for biotech and the FDA
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31:42Ned SharplessGUEST
I mean, I think, you know, accelerated approval is sort of where the rubber meets the road, particularly in oncology.
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31:52Ned SharplessGUEST
And if that's available as a pathway to get your product on the market, it's very attractive.
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31:58Ned SharplessGUEST
It means that you can work on certain kinds of programs that you would not be able to work on if they required a large randomized phase three trial for approval.
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32:05Ned SharplessGUEST
So I think that the posture of the agency on accelerated approval has been a real driver of, you know, rare disease research and, you know, oncologic, you know, unmet medical need research, I guess is the best way to describe it.
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Adam FeuersteinHOST
I just want to get maybe your reaction to that and also just your thoughts on what the FDA can do to sort of better detect side effects, fatalities, things like that in the kind of a post-marketing setting.