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The open innovation campus is backed by £38m of funding from its founding partners – GlaxoSmithKline, the Wellcome Trust, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, the Technology Strategy...
Crowdsourcing can boast of many success stories today, but in 2008, when the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) launched such an effort for drug discovery, there weren't...
Developed at the University of Washington, Foldit has generated buzz in the scientific community for its success in using crowdsourcing via the online game to make key discoveries. For example,...
CDD is the world’s first platform for cloud-based collaborative drug discovery. Today, CDD is used by thousands of scientists from leading research foundations, academia and industry.
Bioinformatics specialists from the Saarbrücken Cluster of Excellence aim to exploit this similarity to find starting points for effective drugs against the EHEC pathogen. They have constructed...
OSDD is a CSIR-led Team India consortium with a global partnership. It aims to provide affordable healthcare to the developing world by providing a global platform where the best minds can...
Most of big pharma’s experiments with open innovation have focused on drug discovery, most likely because it’s the least regulated part of the drug commercialization process. But, although...
Lilly thinks applying these tests to a much wider set of promising compounds could speed development of drugs to fight cancer, Alzheimer's, diabetes, osteoporosis, and other diseases. Giving...
Through the Open Innovation Drug Discovery program (OIDD), Lilly has established a network of top global research talent at academic and biotech institutions to provide them access to proprietary,...
Last week Transparency Life Sciences launched as the world’s first drug development company that is based on Open Innovation. Crowdsourcing.org takes a look at Open Innovation in the scientific community to see how this could work in the world of medicine.
Hi, I have 3 questions on the set-up of a crowdfunding campaign for a drug-discovery, pharmaceutical company based in Scandinavia, Europe. The plan is to raise 2-3 million USD through a global...
Big pharma’s appetite for open-source collaboration has been evident in the past few years. The industry’s apparent focus has been on research and discovery work. Some academic-based groups have...
According to Dr Tomasz Sablinski, the Founder and CEO of Transparency Life Sciences, "The most important obstacle in crowdsourcing in the pharmaceutical industry,and in designing a business...
Crowdsourcing Innovation Platform: The Open Source Drug Discovery Platform developed by India for tuberculosis drug discovery could be used as a template for crowd sourcing in new areas of drug...
WiSeed, a French equity crowdfunding platform, recently helped to finance the drug discovery startup Antabio. After 18 months, the crowd investors exited with a 44% return. We spoke with the platform's co-founders to find out more about the raise and the profitable exit.
The success of an open platform will rest with the community of users themselves. If patients and physicians volunteer experiences in an open and honest fashion, and engage in interactive...
Sir Mark Walport, director of the Wellcome Trust, is a keen advocate of transparency, calling particularly on scientists with public funding to make the results of their research freely and widely...
The awards include: creating a mouse model to study Sanfilippo Syndrome,which results in severe neurological deterioration in children;providing DNA-sequencing to discover new genes that cause...
Some of the winners and the winning ideas of the Challenge were: 1. Anonymous: The Diabetes Triangle: A Systematic Approach to Align Diabetes Classification with Diabetes Management 2....
Online communities such as PatientsLikeMe that provide robust methods for patients to record and share data may have the potential to be used to conduct observational studies to assess the...
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