RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:Panc Biomarker Presentation at ASCO GI 18-20 Jan 2024The FDA doesn’t “have to get to 100% certainty between an accelerated approval endpoint and a clinical endpoint," Marks added.
“If that were the case, there wouldn't be a difference, then we wouldn't have accelerated approval,” he said. The agency can mitigate uncertainty by “using science to the fullest extent," according to Marks—be it available animal data or strong human biomarkers related to, for example, the expression of a particular protein.