{"entity":{"id":"scdmte-armenia","kind":"institution","name":"Scientific Centre of Drug and Medical Technology Expertise","aka":["SCDMTE","Centre of Drug and Medical Technology Expertise","pharm.am"],"tldr":"Armenia's medicines expert body. It assesses medicines before they can be registered, watches for side effects once they are in use, and reviews the plans for clinical trials run in Armenia.","summary":"The Scientific Centre of Drug and Medical Technology Expertise was founded in 1992 as an organisation with managerial, financial and technical independence, accountable to the Ministry of Health. Its listed activities include expert assessment of medicines, herbal medicines and medical devices for state registration, expertise for import and export certification, quality control and detection of counterfeit medicines, quotas for narcotic and psychotropic substances, registration of adverse drug reactions with reporting to the WHO programme for international drug monitoring in Uppsala, review of the National Essential Medicines List, and expertise of clinical trial protocols and monitoring of trials under way. It says it employs more than 80 experts. Its site publishes the Eurasian Economic Union's Decision N78 of 3 November 2016 on rules for medicines registration and assessment, and the minister's 2024 orders on clinical trial assessment. Its contact page gives 49/5 Komitas Avenue, Yerevan; the coordinates are OpenStreetMap's point for that address.","asOf":"2026-11-11","links":[{"label":"SCDMTE: about us","url":"https://www.pharm.am/index.php/en/aboutus"},{"label":"SCDMTE: contacts","url":"https://www.pharm.am/index.php/en/contacts"},{"label":"SCDMTE: home page and announcements","url":"https://www.pharm.am/"}],"tags":[],"related":[],"cancers":[],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":["ministry-of-health-armenia","who"],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"city":"Yerevan","country":"AM","lat":40.208,"lng":44.518,"institutionType":"government","website":"https://www.pharm.am/","programs":["Expert assessment of medicines for state registration","Registration under Eurasian Economic Union rules (Decision N78, 2016)","Expertise of clinical trial protocols and monitoring of trials","Adverse drug reaction monitoring"]},"route":"/institutions/scdmte-armenia/","neighbours":{"institution":[{"id":"ministry-of-health-armenia","kind":"institution","name":"Ministry of Health of the Republic of Armenia","route":"/institutions/ministry-of-health-armenia/"},{"id":"who","kind":"institution","name":"World Health Organization Cancer Programme","route":"/institutions/who/"}]}}