Reusing data could cut R&D costs and greatly increase gene editing’s reach: ARM
The Alliance for Regenerative Medicine (ARM) has published a playbook, building on FDA draft guidance from this summer, showing how gene-editing developers can reuse toxicity, manufacturing and other data across a platform to cut redundant studies and costs. Beam Therapeutics, which helped create the playbook, designs Phase 1 trials as registrational and aims to move from first-in-human studies to FDA approval in four to five years, versus eight to 10 traditionally. ARM also calls for a bifurcated regulatory framework allowing higher-risk, streamlined development for severe rare diseases with no standard of care, while William Blair analysts say more clarity on the plausible mechanism pathway is needed.