ClinicalStudyDataRequest.com (CSDR), an online resource designed to allow researchers access to patient-level clinical trial data from more than a dozen biopharma giants, said today it launched data-sharing collaborations with The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Cancer Research UK, the Medical Research Council, and the Wellcome Trust. CSDR said the collaborations with the four nonprofit partners will enable it to expand its services to researchers by adding academic-led clinical trial data to the patient-level clinical data already available from its biopharma partners. Those 15 partners, according to its website, include Astellas Pharma, Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim, Daiichi-Sankyo, Eisai, GlaxoSmithKline, Eli Lilly, Novartis, Roche, Sanofi, Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma, Sunovion, Takeda Pharmaceutical, UCB, and ViiV Healthcare. “Making clinical trial data available to biomedical researchers across all geographies will help improve academic and clinical research activities and the drug development process, and, ultimately, will enhance patients' health outcomes,” Scott Martin, chair ...
Original Article: CSDR Expands into Academic Data-Sharing Collaborations