Regulatory Record | Marc Roy, PhD

Regulatory record

Submissions that clear, and the discipline behind them.

Anticipating what a reviewer will ask before they ask it is not a stylistic preference. It is the difference between a filing that proceeds and one that returns with questions attached to a timeline.

The record

Filings, submissions, and agency interaction

DT-168
Design Therapeutics

IND filed and cleared with no preclinical inquiries raised, on a construct class with no established regulatory precedent.

DYNE-251
Dyne Therapeutics

IND cleared for a dystrophin-targeted antibody-oligonucleotide conjugate, supported by a nonclinical package completed to program timeline.

4 LDT reports
Pfizer

Lab-developed-test reports submitted to the FDA as IND amendments supporting phase 1b oncology trials.

INDs, NDAs, IBs
Sarepta Therapeutics

Nonclinical sections prepared across investigational and new drug applications and investigator brochures.

Global inquiries
Sarepta Therapeutics

Authored and reviewed responses to health-authority questions across jurisdictions, defending safety positions directly.

Agency representation
Multiple

Represented preclinical safety in regulatory interactions without intermediaries or external consultants.

Why it matters

A preclinical inquiry is a timeline, not a question.

For a development-stage company, an IND that returns with preclinical questions costs months and burns runway that was allocated to clinical work. The cost is rarely the science; it is usually a submission that did not answer the question a reviewer was always going to ask.

Two INDs — DT-168 and DYNE-251 — cleared under Marc's authorship, the first on a construct class with no regulatory precedent to draw on.