Hong Kong - Novotech, a leading biotech specialist CRO in the Asia-Pacific region this month showcases its rare diseases expertise in a new ARENA webinar titled Understanding Asia’s Success as a Rare Diseases Clinical Trial Location, and a keynote presentation at the Clinical Trials in Rare Diseases Conference 2021 (September 14, virtual).

  • The Understanding Asia’s Success as a Rare Diseases Clinical Trial Location webinar is available to view here: https://novotech-cro.com/webinars/accelerating-clinical-trials-rare-disease-understanding-asias-success-rare-disease.
  • Novotech’s Team Lead Client Operations Kirsten Kinsey’s presented Rare Disease Program Success in APAC at Clinical Trials in Rare Diseases Conference 2021. 

There are up to 8,000 rare diseases affecting between 6% and 8% of the worldwide population in total. It is estimated there are about 25 to 30 million people affected in the US while over 45 million people may be suffering from a rare condition in Asia, with 20 million in China alone.

Despite the large number of known orphan diseases, it is estimated only about 5% of rare diseases have an approved treatment.

The webinar looks at Asia’s rare disease clinical trial landscape, and China’s increasing popularity as a clinical trial location, to understand the regional advantages on offer. The panel discusses their first-hand experiences and insights working on range of rare disease programs from a clinical trial operations perspective. They also share the challenges and critical program strategies that need to be considered to support accelerating a clinical program development in the rare disease space.


About 25% of drugs granted with an orphan designation since 2015 were concentrated on 10 major indications. For most of these indications, clinical studies involving sites from Asia-Pacific outperformed the median patient enrollment duration of rare disease trials globally.

Asian countries have been implementing legal frameworks similar to the Orphan Drug Act used in the US, encouraging clinical trials in many locations including South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and the Philippines.

These new legal frameworks in Asia offer general criteria to accelerate the registration and approvals of drugs for the treatment of rare diseases and have established new rules concerning health insurance coverage, expedited registration, and marketing exclusivity periods for biopharma companies.
 
Furthermore, the Action Plan on Rare Diseases launched by the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation is expected to accelerate supportive actions to develop public actions, disease registries, and patient access to clinical trials, and to reduce enrollment durations.

Rare disease clinical studies require a CRO with local knowledge across the Asia-Pacific regulatory, cultural and clinical processes as well as proven networks with specialist clinical leaders and organizations.

This includes expertise in site selection and access to patient registries to accelerate patient enrolment, and global regulatory knowledge regarding the specific context of rare disease trials and orphan diseases trials.

The Asia-Pacific region is the fastest growing region in the global CRO market, offering access to vast patient populations, quality data and expedited regulatory processes.

Novotech has just been awarded the ‘2021 Frost & Sullivan Asia-Pacific CRO Company of the Year’. This is the fifth consecutive year that Novotech has been recognized with the prestigious CRO regional award. 

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Novotech成立於 1997 年,立足亞太,面向全球,是專業的生物技術合同研究組織(CRO)。

Novotech因其在行業內的突出貢獻而備受讚譽,曾榮獲多項殊榮,其中包括 2023 年 CRO 領導力獎 (CRO Leadership Award 2023) 、2023 年亞太地區細胞與基因治療臨床試驗卓越獎 (Asia Pacific Cell & Gene Therapy Clinical Trials Excellence 2023)和自 2006 年以來蟬聯亞太地區合同研究組織年度公司獎 (Asia-Pacific Contract Research Organization Company of the Year Award)。

Novotech是一家包含實驗室、Ⅰ期臨床中心、藥物開發諮詢服務和專業FDA法規服務的臨床CRO,擁有超5,000 項臨床專案經驗,包括Ⅰ期至Ⅳ期臨床試驗。Novotech專注於服務在亞太、美國與歐洲等地進行臨床試驗的生物技術客戶。Novotech目前在全球34個辦公地點共擁有3000多名員工。

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