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E22 – General Considerations for Patient Preference Studies

Guideline number: E22
Draft Guideline approved (Step 2b): 21 October 2025

This topic was endorsed by the ICH Assembly in June 2023.

Further to the ICH Management Committee’s endorsement of the E22 Concept Paper in June 2024, the E22 Guideline aims to optimise the use of patient preference information as input to pharmaceutical product development using a globally harmonised framework and allow regulatory authorities and the pharmaceutical industry to benefit from harmonised approaches for PPS throughout drug development including, where applicable, submission to different regulatory agencies.

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Public consultation on the ICH E22 draft Guideline on General Considerations for Patient Preference Studies, released at Step 2b on 21 October 2025.
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E22 Expert Working Group

Rapporteur

Dr. Francesco PignattiEC, Europe

Regulatory Chair

Dr. Laura Lee JohnsonFDA, United States

Experts

Health Canada, CanadaMr. David Duguay
Health Canada, CanadaMr. Chad Groves
ANVISA, BrazilDr. Adriane Alves de Oliveira
BIOMs. Allison Martin
EC, EuropeDr. Douwe Postmus
EDA, EgyptDr. Dalia Kamal
EFPIAMs. Sheila Dickinson
FDA, United StatesDr. Lihan Yan
IFPMAMs. Lizis Kimura Lopes
IGBADr. Farheen Shaikh
IGBADr. Ravi Shankar
JPMAMs. Inaha Okuda
JPMADr. Yasuo Sugitani
MHLW/PMDA, JapanDr. Madoka Inoue
MHLW/PMDA, JapanDr. Shun Tezuka
National Center, KazakhstanDr. Elmira Tulentayeva
NMPA, ChinaMs. Cong Zhao
PhRMADr. Brett Hauber
PhRMADr. Bennett Levitan
SFDA, Saudi ArabiaMs. Shatha Almuhaidib
Swissmedic, SwitzerlandDr. Elisa Zaninotto
TFDA, Chinese TaipeiDr. Kuan Ting Chen

Rapporteur Supporter

Ms. Charlotte HallinEC, Europe

Alternate

Ms. Lina AljuburiBIO
Dr. Young Su NohIFPMA
Ms. Nurgul PirmanovaNational Center, Kazakhstan
Ms. Ruimin HaoNMPA, China