05/10/2006

Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) a public/private partnership

In 2004, a pan-European public/private partnership was created between the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations and the EU Commission, under the 2006 6th Framework. The Innovative Medicines Initiative supports the discovery and development of better medicines, to enhance Europe’s competitiveness in this field. The IMI proposes practical paths to accelerate progress on innovative medicines with fewer side effects, for the benefit of patients.

In a detailed document entitled “The Innovative Medicines Initiative Strategic Research Agenda (SRA), Creating Biomedical R&D Leadership for Europe to Benefit Patients and Society”, the partnership proposes four strategic areas (“pillars”) that address the principal causes of delay in the biomedical research and development (R&D) process.

The report identifies:
  • late safety evaluation
  • insufficient understanding of the clinical basis of diseases
  • gaps in knowledge management (lack of data pooling and processing infrastructure)
  • and gaps in education and training
as the main bottlenecks in the current biomedical R&D process.

It recommends
  • setting up a European Medicines Research Academy to fill in the gaps within education and training
  • the creation of a European Centre of Drug Safety Research and regional centres of excellence
  • the creation of a Knowledge Management Platform to develop effective data integration and analysis tools.
The EAHP highly recommends that you read the full report available at: http://ec.europa.eu/research/fp6/pdf/innovative_medicines_sra_final_draft_en.pdf
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