Meeting Report: Harmonization of RSV therapeutics – from design to performance.

RSV is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Although no treatment or vaccine currently exists, RSV therapeutics and preventative strategies are being evaluated in clinical trials, including phase 3 trials. Despite great prospects, the regulatory pathways of novel RSV therapeutics have been defined insufficiently. Here we report the results from the ReSViNET 2nd High–level expert meeting 2016 on RSV therapeutics, which was held in Zeist, the Netherlands on March 2nd and 3rd. This meeting was organized to advance discussion on regulatory pathways, clinical development, clinical trials, and health technology models in the RSV therapeutics field. During this meeting regulators, public health specialists, academia, non–governmental organizations and pharmaceutical companies openly discussed and addressed the needs for the successful development of RSV therapeutics and prophylaxis.