Guidance for Industry Estimating the Maximum Safe Starting Dose in Initial Clinical Trials for Therapeutics in Adult Healthy Volunteers
Guidance for Industry Estimating the Maximum Safe Starting Dose in Initial Clinical Trials for Therapeutics in Adult Healthy Volunteers
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Issued by the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) in July 2005, this serves as the industry guide for determining the estimated maximum recommended starting dose (MRSD) for initial clinical trials in adult healthy volunteers. The process involves first determining the "no observed adverse effect levels (NOAELs)" in tested animal species and then converting these NOAELS to the human equivalent dose (HED). This is usually done by body surface area conversion; however, extrapolating doses may be done by other measures if more appropriate. The guidance states that this conversion should be done in one step: "dividing the NOAEL in each of the animal species studied by the appropriate body surface area conversion factor (BSA-CF)." The result will be a unitless number that converts the animal species dose to human dose. The species that generates the lowest HED is the most sensitive species. This is the selection of the most appropriate animal species. Finally, a safety factor of at least 10 must be put in place. The MRSD should be obtained by dividing the HED by the safety factor. One reason for this is that some adverse events (such as migraines) may be undetectable in animals.