This document discusses precompetitive collaborations in the pharmaceutical industry. It defines precompetitive as referring to standards, data, or processes that are common across an industry and provide no competitive advantage. The document outlines a precompetitive mission statement to foster collaborations between organizations to develop standards, identify partnerships, and transfer technology. It also describes current working groups focused on areas like biomarkers, clinical trial design, and data standards.
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Precompetitive
Refers to standards, data, or processes that are
common across an industry and where the
adoption, use, or prosecution of which provides
no competitive advantage relative to peers.
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Precompetitive Mission Statement
Foster collaborations between pharmaceutical,
biotechnology, technology, academic, and
government organizations in precompetitive
space to develop and promote the use of
standards, identify partnerships, and transfer
technology in order to drive greater process
efficiency and lower costs.
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Role Description (CW 2009)
The role consists of three primary elements:
– (1) the definition and promotion of industry standards (e.g., data models,
APIs, processes, etc.) across the Research and Development and Medical
continuum through participation on various non-profit entities (Pistoia
Alliance, Inc.) and consortia (Clinical Research Information Exchange);
– (2) proactive pursuit of pre/non-competitive collaborative application or
technology development opportunities (e.g., industry partners
collaborating with a vendor on the development of the next generation life
sciences electronic notebook), and
– (3) identification and cultivation of opportunities to generate revenue by
monetizing our portfolio of products and services (e.g., divestment and/or
licensing of Pfizer-developed applications).
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R&D: Long, Expensive, and Risky
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Years
Cost = $1.3B/new drug
Target
Selection
Chemical
Selection
Clinical
Trials
Launch
Discovery
(2-10 years)
Pre-clinical Testing
Laboratory and animal testing
Phase 1
20-80 healthy volunteers - safety and dosage
Phase 2
100-300 patient volunteers efficacy & safety
Phase 3
3,000-5,000 patient volunteers used to monitor
adverse reactions to long-term use
FDA Review/
Approval
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Opportunity: Changing Tech
Landscape
More Robust Technologies
Web 2.0
Services-Oriented Architecture
Software-as-a-Service
Open Source Initiatives
More Robust External Content
Publicly available chem and bio sources
Richer literature content
Academic Sources of Tools and Data
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Learn from Other Industries
Transportation
Geospatial
Automotive
ClinicalRetail
Banking
Healthcare
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Collaborations in the Research Space
Industry Collaboration Groups
– Enlight Biosciences
For-profit, Scientific technology development
http://www.enlightbio.com/content/areas-of-interest/
– PRISM (Pharmaceutical Information Systems Management ) Forum
Discussion group –stale since 2004
http://www.prismforum.org/charter.htm
– OMG (Object Management Group/Life Sciences Research)
Open, NFP, Basic specifications
http://www.omg.org/lsr/ - stale since 2005
– W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)
Open, NFP, Basic specs “to lead the web to its full potential”
http://www.w3.org/
– DCMI (Dublin Core Metadata Initiative)
Open, NFP, Develops metadata standards
http://dublincore.org/about/
– PRIME
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Pistoia Description and Purpose
The primary purpose of the (Pistoia) Alliance is
to streamline non-competitive elements of the
life science workflow by the specification of
common standards, business terms,
relationships and processes
Goals
– to allow this framework to encompass/support most
pre-competitive work between the organisations
– to support life science workflow prior to submission
– to work with other Standards organisations
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Phase III
Data -> Questions -> R&D Phases...
Phase IIPhase ILead OptLead IDHit IDTarget ID
Which Target? Which Compound?
Which Disease?
What Biomarkers?
Which Patient?
Disease Association
Bioprocess Assoc
Druggability
‘On Target’ Safety Risk
Validation Tools
Competitive Position
Variant Selection
…
DMPK Properties?
BioAssay Development
Activity-Dose studies?
‘Off Target’ Safety Risk?
Synthesis routes?
Competitive Position?
…
CD positioning?
Safety Biomarkers?
Efficacy Biomarkers?
…
Personalised Healthcare?
What Dose?
Combination Therapies?
Safety Problem Solving
…
Genome/Genetic Data
Sequence Data
Expression Data
Genome/Genetic Data
Pathway Data
Patent Data
Pharmacology Data
Literature Data
Clinical Trial Data
ExemplarData
(External)
Exemplar
Sub-Questions
Stages&
KeyQuestions
Structural Data
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The Path Forward:
Standardize, Simplify, Centralize
Standardize our interfaces and messages
Simplify our cross-industry architectures and support
models
Centralize services to reap economies of scale and
scope
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Phase III
Current Working Groups
Phase IIPhase ILead OptLead IDHit IDTarget ID
Which Target? Which Compound?
Which Disease?
What Biomarkers?
Which Patient?
Stages&
KeyQuestions
ELN Query
Services
Working
Groups
Emergingand
EnablingIdeas
Chemical Renderer
Interface
Domain Model
Pistoia Workflow - CRO
Chem2.0 and Wiki interfaces
RDF and Triples standards
Vocabulary Services
Disease Knowledge
Services
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Current Member Companies
as of January 2010
Accelrys
AstraZeneca
BioXPR
Boehringer Ingelheim
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Cambridge Crystallographic Data
Centre (CCDC)
CambridgeSoft
ChemAxon
ChemITment
Collaborative Drug Discovery (CDD)
DeltaSoft
Edge Consultancy
• GlaxoSmithKline
• Hoffmann-La Roche
• Infosys Technologies Limited
• Knime
• Lundbeck
• Merck
• Novartis
• Pfizer
• Rescentris
• Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
• Symyx
• Thomson Reuters
• UPCO
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Collaborations in the Clinical Space
Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) Production Standards:
– The Study Data Tabulation Model (SDTM) for the regulatory submission of Case Report
Tabulations, including the Standard for the Exchange of Nonclinical Data (SEND).
– The Analysis Data Model (ADaM) for the regulatory submission of analysis datasets.
– The Operational Data Model (ODM) for the transfer of case report form data.
– The Laboratory Model (LAB) for the transfer of clinical laboratory data, including
pharmacogenomics.
– The Biomedical Integrated Research Domain Group (BRIDG) model.
– The Case Report Tabulation – Data Definition Specification (define.xml).
– The Terminology standard containing terminology that supports all CDISC standards.
– The Glossary standard providing common meanings for terms used within clinical research.
Those standards being developed are:
– The Protocol Representation Group developing machine-readable medical research protocol
standards including the Trial Design model shared with SDTM.
– The Clinical Data Acquisition Standards Harmonisation (CDASH) developing data acquisition
standards.
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Partnership to Advance Clinical electronic
Research (PACeR)
A Partnership between leading pharmaceutical
companies, health technology vendors, New York-based
academic medical centers, standards organizations, and
regulators collaborating to build an advanced clinical
research capability enabled by the re-purposing of
electronic clinical care data
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Goal
To accelerate the availability to patients of innovative medicines by improving
capabilities to conduct clinical research
Major
Objectives
More rapidly, accurately, and efficiently identify and enroll patients
appropriate for clinical trials
Assess gaps between current clinical research capabilities (current state),
and those required to meet project goals (ideal state)
Identify regulatory and legal issues, implications for business models, and
data and systems necessary to close gaps
Develop a practical, implementable plan for closing the gaps, addressing
the requirements of all stakeholders
While the initial phase of the work is a collaborative feasibility study, the long-
term goal is to build a sustainable capability and business that delivers a
superior outcome for patients
Project Goal & Objectives
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Provider Perspectives
Clinical trials recruitment is often cumbersome and legacy.
Better tools are absolutely needed
EHRs are rapidly evolving due to many driving forces
• Quality, Safety, ARRA, Clinical Research, Healthcare complexity
Impact on Design/Redesign of current/future EHR technology
• Capture of discrete coded condition and medication data is essential
• Alerts woven into EHR to prompt provider at point of care
• Reuse of EHR data through CDW/EDW technology
• Not uniformly implemented
• Differing lexicons/ontologies describing conditions and medications
Impact on Privacy/Confidentiality, IRB approval
Impact on IT staffing for data mining & delivery
Integration with current CTMS
• Data mapping issues
• 21CFR11 compliance
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Consumer
Scorecard
Physician
Pay for
Performance
Patient
Medical History
External Data (Labs,
Other providers)
Presenting problem
Retrospective
Evidence
Physician
Metrics
Formulary/
Individual
Benefit
Robust
Decision
Support
– Clinical outcome
– Cost effective
– Drug safety
– Epidemiology
– Bio surveillance
Clinical &
Claims Data
Data Analysis
Protocol
Modeling &
Assessment, Site
Selection, Patient
Recruitment
PHRs
Consumers, healthcare providers, policy makers and payers are leveraging HIT,
particularly Electronic Health Records (eHRs) and Health Information Exchanges (HIEs),
to analyze health data, contain healthcare costs, and improve quality of clinical care.
Clinical Research is well positioned to take advantage of the HIT Pipeline
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Discussion Questions
What are the barriers to precompetitive collaborations in
research, development, commercial, medical, etc.
arenas?
What are the factors that are stimulating precompetitive
collaborations?
What is the “tipping point” and how far away is it?
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