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Patient-Focused Drug Development Meetings: Smart Practices from Community Leaders
FasterCures, a center of the Milken Institute, designed this guide for patient advocacy organizations that are ...
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Patient-Centric Initiatives: Focusing for Impact
The impact of patient engagement has been demonstrated by numerous case studies for specific diseases and produ...
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Expanding the Science of Patient Input: Pain Points and Potential
Patient engagement has been called the “blockbuster drug of the 21st century.” Studies find that the more engag...
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Expanding the Science of Patient Input: Building Smarter Patient Registries
Decision-makers in research, industry, policy and health-care settings are actively seeking robust sources of p...
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Expanding the Science of Patient Input: The Power of Language
Language matters. At a February 2016 workshop of leaders committed to expanding patient engagement hosted by Fa...
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Funding Scientific Research - A Giving Smarter Guide
Making an Impact. Strategic philanthropic investments in medical research require a careful consideration of th...
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Rx for Innovation: Recommendations for the New Administration
FasterCures wants President-elect Donald Trump to be ready to address biomedical innovation on day one.
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Alzheimer's Disease: A Giving Smarter Guide to Accelerate Development of New Therapies
The need is staggering. Alzheimer's disease is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States and curren...
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Glioblastoma Multiforme: A Giving Smarter Guide to Accelerating Research Progress
Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM) is an aggressive malignant brain tumor involving glial cells of the brain. At the...
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Hedging Pipeline Risk in Pharma: FDA Swaps and Annuities
The cost of capital to conduct medical R&D is high because investors must be compensated with significant r...
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Kidney Failure - A Giving Smarter Guide
This Giving Smarter Guide is the culmination of a year-long effort to identify strategic philanthropic opportun...
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Advancing Models of Patient Engagement: Patient Organizations as Research and Data Partners
FasterCures, alongside other patient-focused advocacy organizations, has long worked with stakeholders such ...
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Targeting Tau — Our Hope to Solving the Dementia Crisis
In our systems-based review of the biomedical landscape supporting research of a cellular protein called tau—a ...
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Nonprofits: A Growing Force in Drug Development
Shepherding a drug from discovery to the market is a complex process that involves many actors. The process oft...
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Next Generation Prevention - A Giving Smarter Guide
Precision health focuses on improving overall health and preventing disease, rather than treating disease. Usin...
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Misophonia - A Giving Smarter Guide
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Misophonia is a condition in which specific sensory sensations, such as a particular sound, le...
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Alzheimer's Disease - A Giving Smarter Guide
Alzheimer’s disease is increasingly in the spotlight after a number of high-profile clinical trial failures—an ...
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Patient-Reported Outcomes: Design with the End in Mind
“What outcomes matter to patients?”
This question is asked at nearly every meeting in biomedical R&D and h...
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Lipedema - A Giving Smarter Guide
A chronic condition that occurs almost exclusively in women, lipedema manifests as symmetrical buildup of painf...
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Epilepsy - A Giving Smarter Guide
At the time of this report, approximately 30 to 40 percent of epilepsy patients were treatment resistant. The m...