September 10, 2019

Joseph A. DiMasi, Ph.D., Maria I. Florez, MS, Stella Stergiopoulos, MS-MPH, Yaritza Peña, Zachary Smith, MA, Michael Wilkinson MPH, Kenneth A. Getz, MBATufts Center for the Study of Drug Development

Clin Pharmacol Ther. 2019 Sep 10. doi: 10.1002/cpt.1627
PMID: 31502248 | DOI: 10.1002/cpt.1627

Abstract

We gathered data from three pipeline databases and other public sources on development stage and clinical trial metrics for 1,914 investigational drugs, biologics, and vaccines and 2,769 clinical trials intended to treat a wide variety of infectious diseases. We included new molecular entities (NMEs), new formulations, and new combinations. Clinical trial times decreased from 2000-08 to 2009-17, varied by disease class, and were longer for trials with more subjects or more sites. Clinical approval success rates were higher for this set of diseases than those in the published literature for drugs across all therapeutic categories. NMEs to treat HIV had a success rate (16.0%) that was similar to those for drugs in general, while NME success rates for influenza and pneumonia were much higher (48.1% and 50.5%, respectively).

Source: https://ascpt.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/cpt.1627