CTSA Pharmaceutical Assets Portal: Matching Academia and Industry for Drug Repositioning
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Air date: Friday, December 04, 2009, 9:00:00 AM
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Description: This meeting will introduce the NIH community to the topic of drug repositioning and learn about the CTSA Pharma Portal. NIH Intramural researchers will be able to learn to match their scientific interests with the repositioning needs of the industry, resulting in an increased number of approved drugs for new indications.

Drug repositioning, or finding new uses for drugs originally designed for another purpose, has become more important recently as many pharmaceutical companies are seeing their drug pipelines dry up. With the high cost of drug research and development, drug repositioning offers a way to explore these previously shelved assets. The Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) Pharmaceutical Assets Portal is a tool that aims to match researchers’ scientific knowledge of targets and diseases with the repositioning needs of the pharmaceutical industry to potentially increase the number of approved drugs for alternative uses.

Speakers include representatives from Pharma and NIH investigators involved in drug repositioning efforts.

http://www.palladianpartners.com/pharm-assets
Author: NCRR, NCI, and NIH Clinical Center
Runtime: 180 minutes
CIT File ID: None
CIT Live ID: 8215