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My company is devoted to consulting in clinical research and the name represents multiple meanings related to Clinical Pharmacology.
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Azure is A to Z of clinical support encompassing impact of adjacent areas such as CMC and nonclinical research on Clinical Pharmacology.
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Similar to multiple meanings of the name AzureDelta, the goal of my consulting is to maximize the use of clinical data and supporting preclinical programs to gain as much knowledge about the drug as possible in an efficient and economical way. 
 
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About AzureDelta Consultant Galina Bernstein, PhD

Galina Bernstein has over 20 years of experience in the Preclinical Research and Pharmaceutical and Medical Devices Industry. Galina Bernstein received her PhD degree in Biochemistry from Moscow State University and a Certificate of postdoctoral training in Medicinal Chemistry from the University of Michigan College Of Pharmacy. 

She received formal PK training during her postdoctoral tenure with the Pharmacokinetics, Dynamics and Metabolism Department of Pfizer GRD (former Parke-Davis/Warner-Lambert). 

She has conducted non-compartmental PK, compartmental PK and advanced PK/PD modelling including exposure-response, population PK and  PK/PD analyses, biomarkers selection and  correlation analysis.

Galina Bernstein has provided preclinical, clinical pharmacology, pharmacometrics and analytical support for multiple clinical programs for over 300 studies including over 30 studies for the pediatric population. She was involved in a large number of studies for rare diseases as well as advanced therapy medicinal products (ATMP) such as gene therapy. She has been involved in the development and characterization of medical devices and clinical programs in the therapeutic areas of oncology, CNS, vaccines, dermatology, diabetes, cardiovascular, immunology, infectious diseases, renal impairment and others.

Galina Bernstein charted clinical development plans for a wide variety of drugs and indications, represented multiple pharmaceutical companies at FDA meetings, wrote clinical pharmacology and nonclinical sections in IND, NDA and other regulatory documents, responded to information requests with the unique solutions accepted by the Agency and other Health Authorities.

The main accomplishments included integrated data presentation for clinical and preclinical results to maximize the impact of the analysis on the approval of the complete program.

Services Offered

Pharmacometrics

Regulatory support of clinical programs

Strategic support for regulatory approaches to clinical programs; IND/NDA/MAA/PDCO submissions, PSP/PIP; responses to regulatory questions, IRB requests, investigator meetings, justification of study design and dose selection.

Experience with the regional agencies: Japan, China, Australia, New Zealand, European countries, South America

Clinical Pharmacology

Clinical Pharmacology

Design of Clinical Pharmacology studies based on totality of available information, first in human studies, DDI including rare interactions without clinically validated probe, relative bioavailability, studies in special populations – renal and hepatic impairment, pediatric, geriatric; proof of concept or mechanism; small molecules, biologics, gene and RNA therapy

Development and regulatory support of complete clinical development programs for an asset, innovative design of clinical studies, gap analysis of preclinical and clinical programs, selection of appropriate populations for the studies;

Support of late phase studies from concept development to implementation in diverse therapeutic areas, vendor and site selection support and communication with KOLs.

Synthetic approach to the results of complete program to streamline the development of the drug

Modeling skills

Molecular Pharmacology

Mechanism of drug action, interaction with other drugs, diseases and patient characteristics, pharmacogenomics and pharmacogenetics, personalized medicine, rare diseases and innovative therapeutics, biologics and gene therapies.

Regulatory Support of Clinical Programs

Pharmacokinetics and statistical analysis

PK analysis of clinical studies data for drug concentrations in plasma, serum, whole blood, urine and other matrices;

PD parameters derivation for biomarkers and clinical endpoints; statistical analysis for dissolution comparison and stability in support of CMC; comparison and correlation statistical analyses; dose proportionality, exposure-response correlation analysis

Statistical analysis documentation: Statistical Analysis Plan (SAP), mock Tables-Figures-Listings (TLFs), Data analysis plan for biomarkers and exposure-response, meta-analysis and cross-study analysis plans and reports, review of TLFs and analysis reports, writing of analysis reports

statistic data analyst

Modeling & Simulation and Pharmacometrics

Population PK, statistics, kinetics and pharmacokinetics data analysis and non-linear mixed effects modeling with Phoenix WinNonLin/NLME, conversion of published NONMEM models and coding, Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship

Pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic and exposure-response correlation analysis; developing modeling and simulation strategy for clinical programs; use of simulation methods to support dose and dosing regimen selection, trial design, and Go/No-Go decisions, dosing in pediatric studies; simulation of multiple options for the selection of best approach in drug development.

Toxicology

Non-clinical toxicology

Support of clinical programs through in vitro characterization and animal studies, gap analysis for regulatory requirements, in vitro drug-drug interaction, cardiac effect, genotoxicity/carcinogenicity, toxicology in multiple species, toxicokinetics, statistical modeling of safety events to support NOAEL;

Target validation, biophysical characterization of drug candidates, protein biochemistry, microbiology and cell culture, CMC, Molecular biology and recombinant DNA technique

Molecular Parmac

Biomarker analysis and validation, bioanalysis

Selection of biomarkers, support of assay development for PK and biomarkers, review of bioanalytical validation plans and reports; help in selection of bioanalytical methods, laboratories and vendors

Data analysis plans for biomarkers, correlation to dose, PK metrics, depending on the type of biomarkers and frequency of sampling from intense sampling to sparse data, planning and presentation of PK/PD data to regulatory agencies – FDA, EMA, other

Medical Equipment

Medical devices

In vitro diagnostics, risk management, design control, process and product validation, clinical validation, submissions, technology transfer.

News from FDA and EMA

Augmented Reality
Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) have the potential to transform health care, delivering altogether new types of treatments and diagnostics, and changing how and where care is delivered. Central to their potential in diagnosis and treatment is their ability to deliver both standard and entirely new types of content in highly immersive and realistic ways, remotely, and tailored to a variety of clinical contexts.

Standout breast cancer trial outcomes for Roche small molecule therapy

New Phase III analysis reports that an Itovebi TM (inavolisib)-based combination treatment more than doubled progression-free survival in advanced breast cancer patients. The treatment lowered disease risk worsening or death by 57 percent, according to the analysis from Roche’s Phase III INAVO120 study. This was in comparison to palbociclib and fulvestrant only.

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AbbVie agrees $1.4 billion Alzheimer’s acquisition

AbbVie has signed to acquire the biotech Aliada Therapeutics for $1.4 billion. The deal enables the advancement of a potentially best-in-class disease-modifying therapy for Alzheimer’s.

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ACG 2024:J&J data reveals new Crohn’s treatment option

Phase III findings showed that TREMFYA ® (guselkumab) is the first IL-23 inhibitor to demonstrate results in subcutaneous induction and maintenance therapy of Crohn’s disease. New Phase III data from Johnson & Johnson has shown that the biologic could become the first IL-23 treatment to offer both a subcutaneous and intravenous induction regimen for the autoimmune condition.

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FDA Voices: FDA Takes Exciting Steps Toward Establishing the Rare Disease Innovation Hub

This summer, FDA announced plans to establish the Rare Disease Innovation Hub (the Hub), and today, Drs. Cavazzoni and Marks share more about our progress. The Hub is an FDA cross-center program that will act as the single point of engagement and connection with outside parties for drug and biological product development and as a forum for CBER and CDER to collaborate on cross-cutting rare disease-related issues.

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FDA grants accelerated approval to asciminib for newly diagnosed chronic myeloid leukemia

On October 29, 2024, the Food and Drug Administration granted accelerated approval to asciminib (Scemblix, Novartis AG) for adult patients with newly diagnosed Philadelphia chromosome-positive chronic myeloid leukemia (Ph+ CML) in chronic phase (CP).

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Update: Baxter’s Manufacturing Recovery in North Carolina after Hurricane Helene

FDA announced extended use dates for some parenteral drug products, after a review of the stability data submitted by Baxter International. Providers and patients that have the lot numbers in stock will be able to use them through the corresponding new use dates to help with supply. Extended use dates can be found for specific products and corresponding lot numbers in the table.

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Affiliations and Volunteering

Reviewer and member of the Editorial board for Elsevier publisher’s European Journal for Pharmaceutical Sciences
AAPS – abstract reviewer, member Scientific programming committee for AAPS360
ASCPT – past member, presenter and abstract reviewer
DIA – Past member of the DIA Clinical Pharmacology Core Committee and presenter

Representative Publications

E-J van Hoogdalem, G Bernstein. Special issue: Innovations in Early Clinical Drug Evaluation. Curr Rev Clin Exp Pharmacol. 2022;17(1):3. https://www.eurekaselect.com/article/119643 

M Tatipalli, VK Siripuram, T Long, D Shuster, G Bernstein, P Martineau, KA Cook, R Cristofoletti, S Schmidt, V Vozmediano. Informed Optimization of a Pediatric Clinical Pharmacokinetic Trial of a New Spironolactone Liquid Formulation. Pharmaceutics. 2021 Jun 8;13(6):849. Model-https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8228864/pdf/pharmaceutics-13-00849.pdf 

G Bernstein, K Davis, C Mills, L Wang, M McDonnell, J Oldenhof, C Inturrisi, PL Manfredi, OV Vitolo. Characterization of the Safety and Pharmacokinetic Profile of D-Methadone, a Novel N-Methyl-D-Aspartate Receptor Antagonist in Healthy, Opioid-Naive Subjects: Results of Two Phase 1 Studies. J Clin Psychopharmacol. 2019 May/Jun;39(3):226-237. https://journals.lww.com/psychopharmacology/Abstract/2019/05000/Characterization_of_the_Safety_and_Pharmacokinetic.8.aspx 

G Bernstein, J Palatka, S Schmidt. Biomarkers for Personalized Medicine in Oncology: a Work in Progress AAPS Newsmagazine, Jan’19: pp. 10-17, 2019.https://www.aapsnewsmagazine.org/aapsnewsmagazine/articles/2019/jan19/cover-story-jan19

G Bernstein, J Oldenhof. Practical considerations for pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic analysis of antibody-drug conjugates in clinical studies. AAPS CROFG Newsletter. October 2017.

TL Davis, JR Walker, V Campagna-Slater, PJ Finerty, R Paramanathan, G Bernstein, F MacKenzie, W Tempel, H Ouyang, WH Lee, EZ Eisenmesser, S Dhe-Paganon. Structural and biochemical characterization of the human cyclophilin family of peptidyl-prolyl isomerases. PLoS Biol. 2010 Jul 27;8(7):e1000439. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2911226/pdf/pbio.1000439.pdf

A Schuetz, G Bernstein, A Dong, T Antoshenko, H Wu, P Loppnau, A Bochkarev, AN Plotnikov. Crystal structure of a binary complex between human GCN5 histone acetyltransferase domain and acetyl coenzyme A Proteins. 2007 Jul 1;68(1):403-7. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/prot.21407

M Kahraman, S Sinishtaj, PM Dolan, TW Kensler, S Peleg, U Saha, SS Chuang, G Bernstein, B Korczak, GH Posner. Potent, selective and low-calcemic inhibitors of CYP24 hydroxylase: 24-sulfoximine analogues of the hormone 1alpha,25-dihydroxyvitamin D(3).J Med Chem. 2004 Dec 30;47(27):6854-63. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jm040129%2B

 

Presentations and Posters

G Bernstein, E Kendig, MM Goodwin, JF Mohr. Furosemide pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic model to describe urine output in heart failure patients following different routes of administration. European Society of Cardiology – Heart Failure 2022. Madrid, Spain. May 21-24 2022.

A Chimalakonda, S Singhal, R Dockens, G Bernstein, D Marchisin, IG Girgis, S Banerjee, J Throup, U Aras, W Li, B Murthy Deucravacitinib (BMS-986165), an Oral, Selective Tyrosine Kinase 2 Inhibitor: Overview of Pharmacokinetics in Healthy Volunteers Including ADME, Food and pH Effects, and Drug-Drug Interactions, EADV 2020: European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology. Vienna, Austria. Oct 29–31, 2020

Bernstein. Lectures in Clinical Pharmacokinetics and Clinical Pharmacodynamics, TOPRA (The Organizations for Professionals in Regulatory Affairs). Continuing Regulatory Education and Development (CRED) Programme. London, UK, Jun 2018, 2020 (virtual). https://www.topra.org/topra/topra_member/pdfs/Clinical_Development_Programme_2020_without%20speakers.pdf

H Mehta, G Bernstein, J He, J Oldenhof, C Mills, D Milovan, B Setnik, S Schmidt, N Hakim, C Dick. Insights from structural model delineate PK associated with abuse potential following intranasal administration in recreational drug users. ACoP8 Annual Meeting, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA, Oct 15-18, 2017

G Bernstein, J Steyn, H Mehta, J He, A Andrion, J Oldenhof. Data Listing and the Analysis for Immunogenicity of Biologic Agents; Correlation with Efficacy and Pharmacokinetics. ACCP Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, USA, Sep 17-19, 2017.

G Bernstein, Chair. Title:  Exploration of PK/PD in NDA Enabling or Early Proof of Concept Studies. Core Interest Area: Translational Science: Preclinical/Clinical and Product Development. Presentation: Proof of Concept in Early Phase Studies Through PK/PD Modeling: Clinical CRO Perspective. DIA Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, USA, Jun 18-22, 2017.

G Bernstein, J. Oldenhof. Planning of Dosing Regimen and Schedule of Assessments for First in Human Oncology Clinical Trials for Therapeutic Monoclonal Antibodies. ASCO-SITC Clinical Immuno-Oncology Symposium. Orlando, FL, USA, Feb 23-35, 2017.

G Bernstein. A Quantitative Approach to Understanding the Dynamic Interplay between Pain and Concomitant Medications, and Genetics. Oral presentation at symposium “Evolving methods in clinical pain studies: strategies to evaluate abuse deterrence, drug interaction and appropriate patient selection” DIA Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, USA, Aug 28-30, 2016.

Bernstein, Mills C, Davis K, Oldenhof J. Drug PK-ECG correlation in the Dynamic Clinical Study Environment – Evaluation of contributing factors. DIA/FDA Statistics Forum, North Bethesda, MD, April 25-27, 2016.

Software Packages Used

Professional latest supported version 8.4.0 of Phoenix WinNonLin/NLME for PK analysis and modeling
JMP 17.2.0 for statistical analysis
Collaboration with Biostatistical CRO Resolutum Global to enhance statistical analysis offerings https://rgcro.health/

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