| ToxQuest™
- The solution for
electronic submission and review of toxicology data.
The ToxQuest
family of products include ToxSub™,
ToxVision™,
ToxConnect™
and SEND
Validator. These products
facilitate the conversion of animal toxicology and carcinogenicity
data into SEND format and enable analysis and review
of this data.
PharmQuest executed a Cooperative Research & Development
Agreement (CRADA) with the US Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) in April 2002. This led to the development of
a software system for the FDA to receive and analyze
Nonclinical data from pharmaceutical companies. As a
part of the CRADA, the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation
& Research (CDER) and PharmQuest created an industry-regulatory
agencies consortium. Its mission was to standardize
the submission of nonclinical data by Pharmaceutical
companies to the FDA, CFSAN (Center for Food Safety
and Nutrition) and CVM (Center for Veterinary Medicines).
This consortium, formed in June 2002, currently includes
representatives from a majority of the top-20 Pharmaceutical
companies, multiple Contract Research Organizations
(CROs), three regulatory agencies (CDER, CFSAN, CVM)
and a number of leading software vendors. The consortium
released a version of the toxicology and carcinogenicity
data submission format called the Standard for Exchange
of Nonclinical Data (SEND).
CDER has undertaken a pilot
project as a part of this broader initiative. The purpose
of the pilot project is to support the development of
software system designed to facilitate the review and
evaluation of electronic nonclinical datasets, and to
obtain feedback from reviewers and pharmaceutical companies
on the creation and use of SEND.
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