Document ID: FDA-2015-N-0001-0011
Agency: fda
Document Type: Notice
Title: Joint Meeting of the Cellular, Tissue and Gene Therapies Advisory
Committee and the Oncologic Drug Advisory Committee; Notice of Meeting
Posted Date: 2015-02-12T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 29 (Thursday, February 12, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Page 7872]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-02910]

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Food and Drug Administration

[Docket No. FDA-2015-N-0001]

Joint Meeting of the Cellular, Tissue and Gene Therapies Advisory 
Committee and the Oncologic Drug Advisory Committee; 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: Cellular, Tissue and Gene Therapies Advisory 
Committee and the Oncologic Drug Advisory Committee.
    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 April 29, 2015, from 8 
a.m. to 6 p.m.
    Location: FDA White Oak Campus, 10903 New Hampshire Ave., Bldg. 31 
Conference Center, the Great Room (Rm. 1503), Silver Spring, MD 20993-
0002. Answers to commonly asked questions including information 
regarding special accommodations due to a disability, visitor parking, 
and transportation may be accessed at: http://www.fda.gov/AdvisoryCommittees/AboutAdvisoryCommittees/ucm408555.htm.
    Contact Person: Janie Kim or Rosanna Harvey, Center for Biologics 
Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, 10903 New 
Hampshire Ave., Bldg. 71, Silver Spring, MD 20993-0002, 301-796-9016 or 
240-402-8072, email: Janie.Kim@fda.hhs.gov or 
Rosanna.Harvey@fda.hhs.gov, or FDA Advisory Committee Information Line, 
or FDA Advisory Committee Information Line, 1-800-741-8138 (301-443-
0572 in the Washington, DC area). A notice in the Federal Register 
about last minute modifications that impact a previously announced 
advisory committee meeting cannot always be published quickly enough to 
provide timely notice. Therefore, you should always check the Agency's 
Web site at http://www.fda.gov/AdvisoryCommittees/WhatsNew/default.htm 
and scroll down to the appropriate advisory committee meeting link, or 
call the advisory committee information line to learn about possible 
modifications before coming to the meeting.
    Agenda: The committees will discuss talimogene laherparepvec, 
Amgen, Inc., biologics license application (BLA) 125518, an oncolytic 
immunotherapy for the treatment of patients with injectable regionally 
or distantly metastatic melanoma.
    FDA intends to make background material available to the public no 
later than 2 business days before the meeting. If FDA is unable to post 
the background material on its Web site prior to the meeting, the 
background material will be made publicly available at the location of 
the advisory committee meeting, and the background material will be 
posted on FDA's Web site after the meeting. Background material is 
available at http://www.fda.gov/AdvisoryCommittees/CommitteesMeetingMaterials/default.htm. Scroll down to the appropriate 
advisory committee meeting link.
    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 on or before 
April 15, 2015. Oral presentations from the public will be scheduled 
between approximately 11:40 a.m. to 12:40 p.m. Those individuals 
interested in making formal oral presentations should notify the 
contact person 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 on or before April 7, 2015. Time 
allotted for each presentation may be limited. If the number of 
registrants requesting to speak is greater than can be reasonably 
accommodated during the scheduled open public hearing session, FDA may 
conduct a lottery to determine the speakers for the scheduled open 
public hearing session. The contact person will notify interested 
persons regarding their request to speak by April 8, 2015.
    Persons attending FDA's advisory committee meetings are advised 
that the Agency is not responsible for providing access to electrical 
outlets.
    FDA welcomes the attendance of the public at its advisory committee 
meetings and will make every effort to accommodate persons with 
physical disabilities or special needs. If you require special 
accommodations due to a disability, please contact Janie Kim at least 7 
days in advance of the meeting.
    FDA is committed to the orderly conduct of its advisory committee 
meetings. Please visit our Web site at http://www.fda.gov/AdvisoryCommittees/AboutAdvisoryCommittees/ucm111462.htm for procedures 
on public conduct during advisory committee meetings.
    Notice of this meeting is given under the Federal Advisory 
Committee Act (5 U.S.C. app. 2).

    Dated: February 6, 2015.
Leslie Kux,
Associate Commissioner for Policy.
[FR Doc. 2015-02910 Filed 2-11-15; 8:45 am]
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