Guidance for Industry and Food and Drug Administration Staff: Investigational New Drug Applications for Minimally Manipulated, Unrelated Allogeneic Placental/Umbilical Cord Blood Intended for Hematopoietic Reconstitution for Specified Indications; Availability

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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of a document entitled "Guidance for Industry and FDA Staff: Investigational New Drug Applications (INDs) for Minimally Manipulated, Unrelated Allogeneic Placental/Umbilical Cord Blood Intended for Hematopoietic Reconstitution for Specified Indications," dated June 2011. The guidance document provides advice to potential sponsors to assist in the submission of an IND for certain minimally manipulated hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells from placental/ umbilical cord blood, from an unrelated allogeneic cord blood donor and intended for hematopoietic reconstitution in patients with specified indications (HPC-Cs), when such HPC-Cs are not licensed and when a suitable human leukocyte antigen (HLA) matched cord blood transplant is needed for treatment of a patient with a serious or life-threatening disease or condition, and there is no satisfactory alternative treatment. If such HPC-Cs are made available for clinical use, they must be distributed under an IND. The guidance announced in this notice finalizes the draft guidance of the same title dated October 2009.