The pathway
What a Clinical Trial Notification is
What it is ✓ The rule
Under a Clinical Trial Notification, the sponsor tells the TGA about a trial an ethics committee has already approved. Supply is lawful only inside that trial.
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The TGA does not evaluate the product. Supply goes only to the people enrolled in the trial, under its protocol.
What it is not
It is not a retail channel. Calling customers participants does not make a trial.
The steps, in order
- Choose one condition that has no registered trial and an outcome that can be measured.
- Find a principal investigator at an institution that has its own ethics committee.
- Have the product made to pharmaceutical manufacturing standard, with release testing of every batch.
- Write the protocol, the investigator's brochure (saying plainly there is no published controlled human data), the participant information and the insurance.
- Submit to the ethics committee (usually 30 to 60 days).
- Lodge the Clinical Trial Notification with the TGA.
- Obtain the state authority to hold the substance at the trial site.
- Run the trial, report safety events to the TGA and keep every record.
- Publish the result, whatever it is.
What participation would mean
If a study is approved, taking part would start with informed consent. Anyone could leave at any time, without giving a reason.
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It would mean joining an ethics-approved study. A named doctor would be responsible for each participant's care, and for follow-up afterwards.
Tell us you are interested
Status: not recruiting. No ethics approval exists yet.
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