Q1 2025 Newsletter
Take a look at our latest newsletter, which shares updates on key research activities and publications in the first quarter of 2025. Download newsletter
CIRS RD Briefing 97 – Access Consortium and Project Orbis Approvals Across Eight Regulators
This R&D Briefing builds upon the Centre for Innovation in Regulatory Science (CIRS)'s long-standing efforts to examine trends and practices in regulatory approvals. For over 20 years, CIRS has [...]
Economic impact of reliance on an African regulator – Danks 2025
Background and Objectives The inherited backlog of 16,000 medicines applications of the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) was cleared through facilitated review pathways that included reliance on [...]
Review of 2024 CIRS activities
We're pleased to share a high-level summary of what CIRS got up to last year, including key research outputs and meetings. Our full 2024 Annual Report will be published [...]
2025 CIRS Research Agenda
We're pleased to announce that CIRS has published a new Research Agenda, which can be downloaded here. This brochure outlines our research priorities for 2024-2026 as well as plans [...]
Suggested Improvements to the EAC-MRH Joint Review Process – Ngum 2025
Background In 2012, the East African Community Medicines Regulatory Harmonization (EAC-MRH) initiative was established to improve access to safe, effective, and high-quality medical products to patients in the East [...]
CIRS RD Briefing 98 – European HTA trends: HTA outcomes and timelines across seven markets 2019-2023
This R&D Briefing presents data from HTADock, an ongoing CIRS metrics study that collects publicly available data on new active substances (NASs) appraised by key international HTA agencies. It [...]
Latest CIRS activities on rare diseases
In recognition of Rare Disease Day today, we wanted to share what CIRS has been up to recently to help advance regulatory and HTA policies and processes in the [...]
Comparison of good review practices in ECOWAS – Owusu-Asante 2025
Introduction: When implemented by national and regional regulatory agencies good review practices (GRevPs) support the timely high-quality review of medicines for enhanced patients’ availability to safe, quality and efficacious [...]
CIRS participates in new RDI-Lancet Commission on Rare Diseases
CIRS is participating in the Rare Diseases International-Lancet Commission on Rare Diseases (RDI-LCRD), which aims to catalyse global recognition and action for people living with a rare disease, driving systemic change to [...]