Qualification Process for Drug Development Tools

Section 3011 of the 21st Century Cures Act (Cures Act) added new section 507, Qualification of Drug Development Tools (DDTs), to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act). This guidance meets the Cures Act’s mandate to issue final guidance on the section 507 qualification process. Specifically, this guidance represents the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research’s (CDER’s) and the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research’s (CBER’s) current thinking on implementation of section 507 of the FD&C Act with respect to describing the process for requestors interested in qualifying DDTs and on taxonomy for biomarkers and other DDTs.