Published: 22 July 2011
Patients take control of innovation
Nuala Moran, Science|Business
Despite industry’s endless lip service to driving innovation for the benefit of patients, many diseases go untreated. Now, sick of being passive recipients, patients are taking control and shaping innovation to their real needs
Michel Goldman, Director of IMI
The paternalistic model for delivering healthcare innovation, in which patients are passive subjects for testing news drugs or procedures - and grateful recipients of any resulting products - is coming to an end.
The Michael J Fox Foundation provides the most recent example of patient power in action. Rather than wait any longer for the old-fashioned model to deliver a reliable diagnostic, the research charity sealed an agreement last week with the drug discovery services specialist BioFocus,...
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