[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 57 (Friday, March 23, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16252-16253]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-7181]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Food and Drug Administration


Nonclinical Studies Subcommittee of the Advisory Committee for 
Pharmaceutical Science; Notice of Meeting

AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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    This notice announces a forthcoming meeting of a public advisory 
committee of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The meeting will 
be open to the public.

    Name of Committee: Nonclinical Studies Subcommittee of the 
Advisory Committee for Pharmaceutical Science.
    General Function of the Committee: To provide advice and 
recommendations to the agency on FDA's regulatory issues.
    Date and Time: The meeting will be held on May 3, 2001, 8:30 
a.m. to noon.
    Location: Center for Drug Evaluation and Research Advisory 
Committee conference room 1066, 5630 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD.
    Contact: Nancy Chamberlin or Jayne E. Peterson, Center for Drug 
Evaluation and Research (HFD-21), Food and Drug Administration, 5600 
Fishers Lane (for express delivery, 5630 Fishers Lane, rm. 1093), 
Rockville, MD 20857, 301-827-7001, e-mail: [email protected], 
or FDA Advisory Committee Information Line, 1-800-741-8138 (301-443-
0572 in the Washington, DC area), code 12539. Please call the 
Information Line for up-to-date information on this meeting.
    Agenda: The subcommittee meeting will discuss strategies to 
identify promising areas of nonclinical scientific research to 
develop biomarkers and/or other evolving molecular technologies to 
identify or predict: (1) Drug-induced cardiac tissue injury, and (2) 
drug-induced vasculitis.
    Procedure: Interested persons may present data, information, or 
views, orally or in writing, on issues pending before the committee. 
Written submissions may be made to the contact person by April 20, 
2001. Oral presentations from the public will be scheduled between 
approximately 10:45 a.m. and 11:45 a.m. Time allotted for

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each presentation may be limited. Those desiring to make formal oral 
presentations should notify the contact person before April 20, 
2001, and submit a brief statement of the general nature of the 
evidence or arguments they wish to present, the names and addresses 
of proposed participants, and an indication of the approximate time 
requested to make their presentation.
    Notice of this meeting is given under the Federal Advisory 
Committee Act (5 U.S.C. app. 2).

    Dated: March 16, 2001.
Linda A. Suydam,
Senior Associate Commissioner.
[FR Doc. 01-7181 Filed 3-22-01; 8:45 am]
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