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Other Public - Private Consortia
The Coalition
Against Major
Diseases
(CAMD),
www.c - path.org/
CAMD.cfm
Members include the Critical Path Institute,
the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform
at the Brookings Institution, 6 nonprofi t groups
representing patients' interests, 15 leading
pharmaceutical companies, the US Food
and Drug Administration (FDA),
the European Medicines Agency (EMEA), 2
institutes of the National Institutes of Health
(NIH)—the National Institute on Aging (NIA) and
the National Institute of Neurological Disorders
and Stroke (NINDS)—and representatives from
academia. The coalition's purpose is to transform
the drug development paradigm for
neurodegenerative diseases and serve as a model
for other major diseases
Center for
Translational
Molecular
Medicine
(CTMM),
www.ctmm.nl
CTMM is a public-private consortium of
105 partners including universities,
academic medical centers, medical technology
enterprises, and chemical and pharmaceutical
companies. It is dedicated to the development of
medical technologies that enable the design
of new and “personalized” treatments for the main
causes of mortality and diminished quality of life
(cancer and cardiovascular diseases and
neurodegenerative and infectious/autoimmune
diseases) and the rapid translation of these
treatments to the patient.
HRP Initiative,
www.
hrpinitiative.
com
The HRP Initiative is a precompetitive
industry collaboration that is focused on
discovering and developing novel blood
tests and imaging methods to fi nd individuals with
high-risk plaque disease before the occurrence of
the fi rst cardiovascular event. AZ, Merck, Abbott,
Takeda, Phillips, and BGMedicine are industrial
sponsors.
Quebec Pain
Research
Network,
www.qprn.ca
Founded in 2001, now has 50 regular and
26 associate members. It is a multidisciplinary
research program to tackle the challenge
of pain in its multiple dimensions, ranging
from increasing our understanding of
the basic mechanisms of pain transmission to
improving the assessment and treatment of pain in
humans.
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