1. NCATS: Who moved my cheese?
This year, the National Institutes of Health will establish its new National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), created to speed the translation of basic discoveries into therapies that will improve public health. In light of our current fiscal reality (and...
Posted October 5, 2011 | 12:46:30 (EST)
The current drug development paradigm is not working -- it takes an average of 13 years and $1 billion to develop a new drug. Despite our strong national commitment to medical research, and to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in particular, the advances achieved in basic science...
Posted January 20, 2011 | 17:31:00 (EST)
1. NIH: Action on Translation.
Last year on the FasterCures "Top 10" list, we highlighted NIH's new Therapeutics for Rare and Neglected Diseases (TRND) program as a potential model for the role NIH could play more broadly in helping promising basic discoveries bridge the "valley...
Posted December 12, 2010 | 11:40:28 (EST)
Every day we see stories in the media about the latest medical "breakthroughs" that could lead to treatments or cures for dreaded diseases. We are overwhelmed with snippets about stem cells, genes linked to Alzheimer's disease, autism and diabetes. We hear that cancer drugs are being tailored to treat an...
Posted January 7, 2010 | 12:47:00 (EST)
1) FDA: The science of regulation. FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg has made the improvement of regulatory science a top priority. What is regulatory science? Put simply: sound science necessary to support good regulatory decision making -- both at FDA and outside the agency. Keeping abreast of developments in...
Posted October 2, 2009 | 15:08:32 (EST)
Any patient will tell you: it doesn't really work in real life the way it works in medical dramas on TV.
If we were all TV patients, we'd have had "the pads" applied to revive us a la "ER." We'd get house calls like in the days of "Marcus...
6 Comments | Posted January 5, 2012 | 14:55:46 (EST)