Food and Drug Administration        

Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER)

 

Cardiovascular and Renal Drugs Advisory Committee

99th Meeting

May 29, 2003

 

Holiday Inn, Silver Spring

8777 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring, MD

 

AGENDA

 

8:00      Call to Order and Opening Remarks                                Jeffrey Borer, M.D., Chair

 

            Introduction of Committee

 

            Conflict of Interest Statement                                         Jayne E. Peterson, R.Ph., J.D.                                                                                                                          Executive Secretary, FDA

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QT prolongation issues associated with two new drug applications (NDAs): (1) NDA 21-287, (alfuzosin HCl), Sanofi-Synthelabo Inc., for the proposed indication of treatment of the signs and symptoms of benign prostatic hyperplasia; and (2) NDA 21-400, Levitra (vardenafil HCl), Bayer Corp., proposed for the indication of treatment of erectile dysfunction.  The discussion will focus on:  (1) Clinical trial designs for the assessment of QT prolongation; (2) approaches to the correction of QT interval for drugs that affect the heart rate; and (3) risks of cardiac arrythmias associated with different degrees of QT prolongation.  Premarketing clinical safety data from these applications and postmarketing safety data relevant to cardiac QT prolongation from drugs in the same two drug classes (i.e., alpha adrenergic blockers and phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitors) will be considered.

 

8:15      FDA Presentation

            Welcome and Background                                              Douglas Throckmorton, M.D.

Director, Division of Cardiovascular and Renal Drug

Products, CDER, FDA

 

8:30      Sponsor Presentations 

              Sanofi-Synthelabo Inc.                                                         

     Background                                                              Jon Villaume, Ph.D.

                                                                                                Sanofi-Synthelabo Inc.

 

                 Pharmacokinetics                                                      Jim Oppermann, Ph.D.

                                                                                                Sanofi-Synthelabo Inc.

 

                 ECG Studies                                                            Wocjiech Zareba, M.D., Ph.D.

                                                                                                University of Rochester

 

                 Conclusions                                                              Jeremy Ruskin, M.D.

                                                                                                Massachusetts General Hospital

 

9:20      Questions from Committee to Sponsor                                                               

            Cardiovascular and Renal Drugs Advisory Committee

May 29, 2003

AGENDA (cont.)

                                                                       

9:30        Bayer Corporation

                 Introduction                                                 Mary Taylor, M.P.H.

                                                                                    Vice President

                                                                                    Regulatory Affairs North America

                                                                                    Bayer Pharmaceuticals Corporation

           

                 Assessment of the QT/QTc                           Thomas Segerson, M.D.

                 Effect of Vardenafil                                      Vice President

                                                                                    Medical and Scientific Affairs

                                                                                    Bayer Canada

 

                 QT/QTc Study Design,                                 Joel Morganroth, M.D.

                 Heart Rate Correction &                               Clinical Professor of Medicine

                 Risk of Cardiac Arrhythmia                           University of Pennsylvania

                                                                                    Chief Scientist

                                                                                    eResearch Technology

 

10:20    Questions from Committee to Sponsor

 

10:30    Break

 

10:45    FDA Presentations                                          

                  Introduction                                                Donna Griebel, M.D.

                                                                                    Deputy Director, Division of

                                                                                    Reproductive and Urologic Drug

                                                                                    Products, CDER, FDA

 

                 Effect of alfuzosin on QT Interval                  Venkat Jarugula, Ph.D.

                                                                                    Clinical Pharmacology and

Biopharmaceutics Reviewer, FDA

 

                 Effect of vardenafil on QT Interval                Leslie Kenna, Ph.D.

                                                                                    Clinical Pharmacology and

Biopharmaceutics Reviewer, FDA

 

                 Safety Summary: Adverse events                   Marcea Whitaker, M.D.

                 potentially related to QT prolongation             Medical Officer, FDA

     or Torsade de Pointes                                                          

 

                 Summary of Review Issues                           Donna Griebel, M.D.

 

11:45    Questions from Committee to FDA

 

12:00    Lunch

 

1:00      Open Public Hearing

 

2:00      Committee Discussion and Response to FDA Questions

 

3:00      Break

 

3:15      Continuation of Committee Discussion and Response to FDA Questions

 

Cardiovascular and Renal Drugs Advisory Committee

99th Meeting

May 29, 2003

 

Special Government Employee (SGE) Consultants (voting)

 

Jean T. Barbey, M.D.

Assistant Professor

Medicine and Pharmacology

Acting Director, Division of Clinical Pharmacology

Georgetown University

3900 Reservoir Road

Washington, DC   20007

 

L. Gay Bernitsky, M.D.

Urology Network of New Mexico, LLC

5501 Jefferson NE, Suite 700

Albuquerque, New Mexico 87109

 

Philip Hanno, M.D.

Division of Urology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Medical Director

Department of Clinical Effectiveness and Quality Improvement

University of Pennsylvania Health System

Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania 

 

Peter Kowey, M.D.

Professor of Medicine, Jefferson Medical College

Chief of Cardiology, Lankenau Hospital and Main Line Health System

Lankenau Medical Office Building

100 Lancaster Avenue, Suite 556

Wynnewood,  Pennsylvania  19096

 

Edward L.C. Pritchett, M.D.

Consulting Professor of Medicine

Divisions of Cardiology and Clinical Pharmacology

Duke University Medical Center

P.O.  Box 2785

Durham, North Carolina  27715

 

SGE Consultant (non-voting)

 

Dan M. Roden, M.D.

Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology

Chief, Division of Clinical Pharmacology

Division of Clinical Pharmacology

Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

Nashville, Tennesse

 

Acting Industry Representative (non-voting)

 

John Neylan, M.D.

Vice President, Clinical Research and Development

Wyeth Research

500 Ariola Road

Collegeville, Pennsylvania  19426

Cardiovascular and Renal Drugs Advisory Committee

99th Meeting

May 29, 2003

 

Open Public Hearing Speakers

 

 

·       Pfizer Incorporated (two speakers):

 

Michael Sweeney, M.D.

Senior Medical Director

Pfizer Incorporated

 

Rodney Falk, M.D.

Professor of Medicine

Director of Clinical Cardiology

Research and Associate Director of Boston University

Boston Medical Center

Boston, Massachusetts 

 

 

 

 

·       Culley Carson, M.D.

Professor and Chief of Urology

University of North Carolina

Chapel Hill, North Carolina