Corner Office: Uprooting the Foundation

What does this look like? It looks like tearing down barriers for all of our stakeholders in order to make the search for treatments faster, easier and more effective. We are inviting people from all sectors to collaborate, to share resources and to work together rather than separately find solutions. We are doing whatever it takes to facilitate cross-institutional data sharing. This means providing open access to animal and cellular models, and creating a tissue biobank with open access for all scientists who agree to share their research with others. (This open-source model, while it may sound just like common sense, is quite revolutionary in our world of litigious and overprotective entities.) It involves building and growing a patient registry, an anonymized patient-entered database that can be used to match willing patients to clinical trials. We now offer full drug research and development services, compound scouting services, and even the support of a patent attorney for those who need it. We simply cannot hear excuses anymore.