2020: A Record Year for Drug Approvals

In 2020 The United States Food and Drug Administration?s (FDA) Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) approved 53 novel drugs, five more than in 2019, but still an aggressive number when compared with 2015 when only 45 new drugs were released to the market. CDER, the largest department within the FDA, has robustly approved a rising number of generic drugs in the last several years, increasing their accessibility and reducing patient and payor costs.