Quality by Design for Preclinical In Vitro Assay Development

Pharm Stat. 2024 Sep 24. doi: 10.1002/pst.2430. Online ahead of print.

Abstract

Quality by Design (QbD) is an approach to assay development to determine the design space, which is the range of assay variable settings that should result in satisfactory assay quality. Typically, QbD is applied in manufacturing, but it works just as well in the preclinical space. Through three examples, we illustrate the QbD approach with experimental design and associated data analysis to determine the design space for preclinical assays.

Keywords: CRISPR; JMP; assay optimization; design of experiments; design space; screening.