Food and Drug Administration

Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research

 

SUMMARY MINUTES

VACCINES AND RELATED BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTS ADVISORY COMMITTEE

 

 

Meeting # 115:  November 20, 2008

Teleconference Meeting

 

Committee Members                                                               FDA Participants

Dr. John Modlin, Acting Chair                                               Dr. Carolyn Wilson

Dr. Jack Stapleton                                                                   Dr. Konstantin Chumakov

Dr. Vicky DeBold*                                                                Dr. Jerry Weir

Dr. Jose Romero                                                                     Dr. Philip Krause

Dr. Pablo Sanchez                                                                   Dr. Norman Baylor

Dr. Frank DeStefano                                                             

Dr. Peter Gilbert                                                                    

Dr. Seth Hetherington**                                                                   

Dr. Lisa Jackson***                                                   

                                                                                               

 

 

Designated Federal Officer                                        Committee Management Specialist

Christine Walsh, R.N.                                                 Denise Royster

 

 

These summary minutes for the November 20, 2008 Meeting of the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee were approved on ___November 26, 2008____.

 

I certify that I participated in the November 20, 2008 Meeting of the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee and that these minutes accurately reflect what transpired.

 

 

 

______/s/________________                         _________/s/_______________

Christine Walsh, R.N.                                     John Modlin, M.D.

Designated Federal Officer                            Acting Chair

 

* Consumer Representative

** Industry Representative

*** Absent November 20, 2008 Meeting

 

 

 

 

The Acting Chair, Dr. John Modlin called the one hundred and fifteenth Meeting of the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee to order at 1:05 p.m. ET on November 20, 2008.  The meeting addressed the April 3, 2008 site visit of the intramural research programs of the Laboratory of DNA Viruses, Division of Viral Products, Office of Vaccines Research and Review (OVRR), Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER).

 

The meeting was held by telephone conference call.  The public was welcome to attend the open session of the meeting at the National Institutes of Health, Building 29B, Conference Room C, Bethesda, MD.  A speakerphone was provided at the specified location for public participation.

 

An Open Public Hearing was announced.  No public comment was offered.

 

Following is a summary of the discussion.  Additional information and specific details may be obtained from the transcript of the meeting.  The transcript may be viewed on the World Wide Web at:  http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/cber08.html#VaccinesandRelatedBiological.

 

Proceedings were adjourned at approximately 3:30 p.m. ET on November 20, 2008.

 

Open Session

 

The telephone conference meeting focused on the intramural research programs of the Laboratory of DNA Viruses, Division of Viral Products, Office of Vaccines Research and Review (OVRR).  The committee heard presentations on the overview of the Laboratory Site Visit process from Dr. Carolyn Wilson, FDA, an overview of the Office of Vaccines Research and Review from Dr. Konstantin Chumakov, FDA, an overview of the Division of Viral Products from Dr. Jerry Weir, FDA, and an overview of the Laboratory of DNA Viruses from Dr. Philip Krause, FDA.

 

Closed Session

 

The committee discussed the site visit report from the April 3, 2008, Laboratory of DNA Viruses.  The committee approved the site visit report.