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http://www.asiancancerresearchgroup.org/

An independent, not-for-profit consortium to accelerate research, and improve treatment for patients affected with the most commonly-diagnosed cancers in Asia by generating a genomic data resource for the most prevalent cancers in Asia. ACRG is focusing its initial efforts on Asian liver, gastric and lung cancers. Goals * Generate comprehensive genomics data sets for Asia-prevalent cancers * Conduct all research under good clinical practices and in accordance with local laws * Uncover key mutations and pathways for developing targeted therapies * Discover molecular tumor classifiers for patient stratification * Discover prognostic markers to identify high-risk patients * Freely share resulting raw data with scientific community to empower researchers globally and enable development of new diagnostics and medicines * Publish data analysis results jointly in prominent scientific journals Over the next two years, Lilly, Merck and Pfizer have committed to create an extensive pharmacogenomic cancer database that will be composed of data from approximately 2,000 tissue samples from patients with lung and gastric cancer that will be made publicly available to researchers and, over time, further populated with clinical data from a longitudinal analysis of patients. Comparison of the contrasting genomic signatures of these cancers could inform new approaches to treatment. Lilly has assumed responsibility for ultimately providing the data to the research public through an open-source concept managed by Lilly''''s Singapore research site. Moreover, Lilly, Merck and Pfizer will each provide technical and intellectual expertise. One dataset can be found at http://gigadb.org/dataset/100034

Proper citation: Asian Cancer Research Group (RRID:SCR_004001) Copy   

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https://www.trainingconsortium.asia/

Consortium of pharmaceutical companies and clinical research organizations, plus one regional association, that are pooling their resources to deliver quality training courses for clinical research professionals in the Asia Pacific region. The collaborative training initiatives aim to resolve issues of redundant and duplicate trainings, less than optimal class sizes and lower than ideal training frequencies, all of which are prevalent in the region. ATC also hopes to significantly enhance the number and quality of professionals to meet the resource demands of the globalized industry. The first target audience would be clinical trial investigators and clinical trial management staff - with priorities provided to clinical trial associates, clinical trial project managers, and clinical research managers. As of 2014, 900 days of ATC courses have been taught in classrooms throughout Asia. The ATC''s Foundations of Clinical Project Management is a regularly offered in Shanghai and is available on-line in English and Mandarin.

Proper citation: Asia Training Consortium (RRID:SCR_004014) Copy   

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http://www.orbitoproject.eu/

Project that aims to increase understanding of how orally-administered drugs are taken up from the gastrointestinal tract into the body, and apply this knowledge to create new laboratory tests and computer models that will better predict the performance of these drugs in patients over a range of clinically relevant conditions. The integration of in vitro and in silico approaches will provide a biopharmaceutics toolkit, validated using clinical data, to accelerate drug development. Ultimately, the project will help to facilitate and speed up the formulation development process and significantly reduce the need for animal experiments in this area as well as for human clinical studies in the future. For patients, the main benefit will be in the form of high quality medicines where the dose required is well calculated and is released in a way that consistently provides an optimal clinical effect.

Proper citation: ORBITO (RRID:SCR_003876) Copy   

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http://www.oncotrack.eu/

An international consortium to develop and assess novel approaches to identify and characterize biological markers for colon cancer that will deepen the understanding of the variable make-up of tumors and how this affects the way patients respond to treatment. They will use cutting edge laboratory-based genome sequencing techniques coupled to novel computer modelling approaches to study both the biological heterogeneity of colon cancers (i.e. patient to patient variability) as well as tumor variation within the patient for example, by comparing primary tumors with metastases. This five year project brings together top scientists from European academic institutions offering a wide range of expertise, and partners them with pharmaceutical companies. The project is based on the premise that this genetic and epigenetic information, combined with a description of the molecular pathology of the tumor, will allow OncoTrack to generate a more accurate in-silico model of the cancer cell. This will facilitate the identification of predictive markers that can be used to guide the optimal therapy strategy at the level of the individual patient - and will also provide on-going prognostic guidance for the clinician. This project will not only advance understanding of the fundamental biology of colon cancers but will provide the means and approach for the identification of previously undetected biomarkers not only in the cancer under study, but potentially also in other solid cancers and, in doing so, open the door for personalized management of the oncology patient.

Proper citation: OncoTrack (RRID:SCR_003767) Copy   

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http://www.alzheimer-europe.org/Research/PharmaCog

Project aiming to tackle bottlenecks in Alzheimer''''s disease research and drug discovery by developing and validating new tools to test candidate drugs for the treatment of symptoms and disease in a faster and more sensitive way. They will provide the tools needed to define more precisely the potential of a drug candidate, reduce the development time of new medicines and thus accelerate the approvals of promising new medicines. By bringing together databases of previously conducted clinical trials and combining the results from blood tests, brain scans and behavioral tests, the scientists will develop a ''''signature'''' that gives more accurate information on the progression of the disease and the effect of candidate drugs than current methods do. The scientists will conduct parallel studies in laboratory models, healthy volunteers and patients in order to better predict good new drugs as early as possible. This will enable them, for instance, to find out how memory loss in Alzheimer''''s disease can be simulated in healthy volunteers, for example with sleep deprivation or drugs that temporarily affect the memory, in order to test the effect of candidate-medicines early in the drug development process.

Proper citation: PharmaCog (RRID:SCR_003878) Copy   

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http://www.imi-getreal.eu/

Consortium that aims to improve the efficiency of the medicine development process by better incorporating estimates of relative effectiveness into drug development and to enrich decision-making by regulatory authorities and health technology assessment (HTA) bodies through: * Bringing together regulators, HTA bodies, academics, companies, patients and other societal stakeholders; * Assessing existing processes, methodologies, and key research issues; * Proposing innovative (and more pragmatic) trial designs and assessing the value of information; * Proposing and testing innovative analytical and predictive modelling approaches; * Assessing operational, ethical, regulatory issues and proposing and testing solutions; * Creating new decision making frameworks, and building open tools to allow for the evaluation of development programs and use in the assessment of the value of new medicines; * Sharing and discussing deliverables with, among others, Pharmaceutical companies, regulatory authorities, HTA / reimbursement agencies, clinicians and patient organizations; * Developing training activities for researchers, decision makers and societal stakeholders in the public and private sector in order to increase knowledge about various aspects of relative effectiveness. The expected impact is that it will contribute to the knowledge base, particularly to inform clinical decision making and improve the efficiency of the R&D process. GETREAL will help to generate a consensus on best practice in the timing, performance and use of real life clinical studies in regulatory and reimbursement decision-making. It will also help to create a strong platform for the communication of results and for future discussions in this important area.

Proper citation: GetReal (RRID:SCR_003862) Copy   

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