Quantitative system pharmacology as a legitimate approach to examine extrapolation strategies used to support pediatric drug development.
CPT Pharmacometrics Syst Pharmacol
; 11(7): 797-804, 2022 07.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-35411657
ABSTRACT
Extrapolation strategies from adult data for designing pediatric drug development programs are explored using the quantitative systems pharmacology (QSP) modeling approach, a mechanistic drug and disease modeling framework that can predict clinical response and guide pediatric drug development in general. This innovative model-informed drug discovery and development approach can leverage adult-pediatric pharmacology and disease similarity metrics to validate extrapolation assumptions. We describe the QSP model strategy and framework for extrapolation to design pediatric drug development programs by leveraging adult data across a wide range of therapeutic areas and illustrating stage-gate decisions informed by such an approach.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Pharmacology
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Drug Development
Type of study:
Prognostic_studies
Limits:
Adult
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Child
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Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
CPT Pharmacometrics Syst Pharmacol
Year:
2022
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
United States