Resources from Deffai

FDA guides and templates.

Practical guides, playbooks, and templates for your FDA submissions.

361 HCT/P

What is FDA’s Tissue Reference Group?

Guide

A simple guide to who decides whether your tissue product is regulated solely under section 361 of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act, and where it lands inside FDA if it isn’t.

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361 HCT/P

361 HCT/P Warning Letters

Analysis

How FDA actually enforces the HCT/P regulatory framework and where companies keep going wrong.

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361 HCT/P

The 361 Status Eligibility Playbook

Guide

The strongest case for eligibility is built long before the actual submission.

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361 HCT/P

The TRG Submission Checklist

Template

A successful submission effectively translates your strategy.

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INTERACT

The Biologics Development Roadmap

Guide

How cell and gene therapy biological products moves from idea to licensed BLA

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INTERACT

FDA Milestone Meetings

Guide

A guide to the formal FDA meetings every cell and gene therapy program runs on, built on the framework that governs all drugs and biologics.

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INTERACT

The INTERACT Meeting Playbook

Guide

Why and when to ask FDA for early advice on a novel biologic, and how to know you’re actually ready.

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INTERACT

Seven Ways to Waste an INTERACT Meeting

Guide

INTERACT is a single, early, non-binding shot at FDA's read on a novel program. Here is how sponsors squander it, and what to do instead.

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INTERACT

The INTERACT Checklist & Submission

Template

How to create a focused INTERACT submission with the right questions

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Pre-IND

Where Pre-IND Meetings Go Wrong

Guide

A former reviewer's field guide to the seven ways sponsors waste a Pre-IND meeting, and what it takes to get concrete answers instead.

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IND

CMC for a Cell or Gene Therapy IND

Guide

What FDA has to see in your Chemistry, Manufacturing, and Controls package to let you dose the first patient, and what can wait until later.

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FDA Review Recovery

The FDA Review Recovery Playbook

Guide

How to recognize a deteriorating FDA review, read the decision letter, and move quickly and carefully when a clinical hold, CRL, or NSE lands.

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