Examples of Breakthrough Designation in a sentence
Section 517A of the FD&C Act requires the Center to provide, upon request of a person who is seeking to submit or who has submitted a 510(k), PMA, IDE, HDE, or Breakthrough Designation Request, a “substantive summary” of the scientific and regulatory rationale for any 517A decision regarding such submission, including documentation of how the least burdensome requirements were considered and applied, and documentation of significant controversies or differences of opinion and the resolution thereof.
FDA interprets section 517A(a)(2) of the FD&C Act to permit persons who have submitted or who are seeking to submit 510(k)s, PMAs, IDEs, HDEs, or a Breakthrough Designation Request to request substantive summaries of 517A decisions regarding their own device (not the devices of others) without having to file a request under FOIA.
We have designed a development plan for our Hemopurifier focused on oncology indications, improved the manufacturing process, established quality systems, had multiple interactions with the FDA under our Breakthrough Designation, including a face to face meeting in Bethesda, Maryland in June and prepared for an Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) application to initiate clinical trials in cancer.
Based on these observations and data, in November 2019 the FDA granted us a second Breakthrough Designation “…for the treatment of individuals with advanced or metastatic cancer who are either unresponsive to or intolerant of standard of care therapy, and with cancer types in which exosomes have been shown to participate in the development or severity of the disease.” In June 2019, we met with the FDA in Bethesda, Maryland to discuss the development program for the Hemopurifier in cancer.
Alternative Pathway for Devices That Have a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Breakthrough Designation For devices that have received FDA marketing authorization and a Breakthrough Device designation from the FDA, CMS provides an alternative pathway to qualify for device pass-through payment status, under which devices would not be evaluated in terms of the current substantial clinical improvement criterion for the purposes of determining device pass-through payment status.
Alternative Pathway for Devices That Have a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Breakthrough Designation For devices that have received FDA marketing authorization and a Breakthrough Device designation from the FDA, CMS provided an alternative pathway to qualify for device pass-through payment status, under which devices would not be evaluated in terms of the current substantial clinical improvement criterion for the purposes of determining device pass-through payment status.
The Breakthrough Designation status results in expedited review by the agency.
In addition, the FDA granted the compound its Breakthrough Designation, indicating the drug is (1) intended to treat a serious or life-threatening disease or condition alone or combined with one or more other drugs, and (2) preliminary clinical evidence indicates it may demonstrate substantial improvement over existing therapies on one or more clinically significant endpoints.
Breakthrough Designation was granted on December 14, 2017, based on the topline results of Study D2311.
Alternative Pathway for Devices That Have a FDA Breakthrough Designation For devices that have received FDA marketing authorization and a Breakthrough Device designation from the FDA, CMS provided an alternative pathway to qualify for device pass-through payment status, under which devices would not be evaluated in terms of the current substantial clinical improvement criterion for the purposes of determining device pass-through payment status.