Regulatory science accelerates the development of biotechnology drugs and vaccines by NIFDC

Abstract

The Chinese National Institutes for Food and Drug Control (NIFDC) is the national laboratory responsible for the quality control of pharmaceutical products. In recent years, to ensure the quality of biological products and improve the research and development (R&D) of new biological drugs and vaccines, NIFDC conducted a series of regulatory science studies on key technologies for quality control and evaluation, and established a quality control and evaluation platform for biological drugs and vaccines. These studies accelerated the R&D of the biological drugs and vaccines in China and assured their safety and efficacy. In this paper, NIFDC's duties and achievements in the biological drug and vaccine field are summarized.

• biotechnology drug
• quality control
• vaccine

We thank the National Eleventh and Twelfth Five Major Special Projects Funding Program (NOs 2009ZX09307-001, 2012ZX09304010 and 2012ZX10004701) for their support.