A Catalyst to Enable Innovation
A Catalyst to Enable Innovation
Connecting advocacy organizations, academia, regulatory and nonprofit organizations, I-ACT for Children develops and leads activities addressing topics aimed at improving drug development for children worldwide.
Since our inception, I-ACT for Children has engaged in a number of pre-competitive projects. Focus areas include inclusion of adolescents in adult clinical trials, COVID-related pediatric research priorities, innovations in pediatric inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) therapies and pediatric clinical trial design and development.
By engaging in pre-competitive projects, our goal is to develop innovative tools and systems that increase efficiency to benefit current and future pediatric clinical trials and researchers.
Pre-competitive Projects
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Platform Trial
- A collaboration between Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy, the Critical Path Institute and I-ACT for Children to develop a platform trial that will increase access to therapeutic trials
- The trial will study multiple drugs in multiple patient types with one common placebo-controlled arm
- The goal: faster Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) therapy testing and approval, as well as reduced trial startup and execution time
Closing the Gap in Labeling New Antibiotics for Children
- Identified common obstacles that delay completion of regulatory requirements for recently approved antibacterials
- Convened key stakeholders to prioritize critical needs of infants and children related to antibiotic drug resistance
- Multi-stakeholder webinar in early/mid 2022 to focus on actionable solutions to challenges
- Learn more by reading the article: Advancing Pediatric Antibacterial Drug Development: A Critical Need to Reinvent our Approach
Using Real-World Data to Advance Clinical Trials That Involve Critically Ill Newborns
- Partnered with Critical Path Institute and International Neonatal Consortium to develop real-world database
- Organized 20+ sites in the I-ACT for Children site network to contribute data from NICU patients
Addressing the Challenges of Approving and Labeling Innovative Therapies to Treat Children With Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Hosted series of webinars that identified challenges faced in the current regulatory pathway for approval and labeling of new therapies to treat children with IBD
- Recommendations of key stakeholders, including patient advocates, patients, clinicians, academics, regulators and sponsors
Adolescent Participation in Adult Clinical Trials
- Hosted Pediatric Research Innovation Forum focused on addressing the challenges of including adolescents in Phase 3 registration trials
- Published consensus on Forum’s recommendations advocating for inclusion of adolescents in early clinical development (Therapeutic Innovation & Regulatory Science. 2021)
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