By Andrea Park –Fierce Biotech

For the first time since it launched in 2020 and began accepting submissions in 2022, a program started by the FDA to provide support for unconventional drug development tools has accepted its first artificial intelligence-powered tool.

The Innovative Science and Technology Approaches for New Drugs (ISTAND) pilot was designed to create a new pathway to FDA review for novel tools that may not fit into currently existing routes of evaluation, but that could potentially improve the development of new drugs.

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