Nonclinical

Below is a list of popular client requests in Nonclinical.

Technical writing

  • Review of draft regulatory documentation
  • Briefing book support and authorship for pre-IND and INTERACT meeting interactions
  • Study report and protocol content review and authorship
  • Reagent QC and analytical methods documentation edits
  • Authorship of full IND
  • Authorship of Module 1, Module 2, Module 3, Module 4, Module 5
  • Drafting or consolidation of TPP documents for regulatory filings

Preclinical/nonclinical strategy

  • Development of regulatory positioning and early interaction strategy
  • General planning for IND readiness including gap analysis
  • Animal model selection and study design
  • Strategic interim leadership

Roadmap to IND

  • IND roadmap delivery
  • Gantt chart
  • Timeline analysis
  • Critical path identification
  • Resource planning
  • CRO/CDMO/vendor selection

CRO oversight

  • Vendor/CRO selection
  • Cross-functional vendor oversight with technical program management
  • CRO audit planning and performance monitoring
  • Project management, including maintaining up-to-date project timelines, organizing project team meetings, capturing meeting minutes, establishing RACI (responsible, accountable, consulted, informed) matrices, and following up on achievement of action items.

Study design and oversight

  • Design of nonclinical proof-of-concept studies
  • Feedback on critical quality attributes (CQA) and experimental ranges
  • Compilation and review of nonclinical assay data
  • Advisory on in vivo model selection and suitability, aka, a de novo nonclinical package or study design  
  • Nonclinical study endpoint selection and study design
  • Study report authorship
  • De novo nonclinical package design
  • Oversight of nonclinical study execution
  • Nonclinical package/study gap analysis