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Data silos are undermining drug development and failing rare disease patients

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العنوان: Data silos are undermining drug development and failing rare disease patients
المؤلفون: Nathan Denton, Monique Molloy, Samantha Charleston, Craig Lipset, Jonathan Hirsch, Andrew E. Mulberg, Paul Howard, Eric D. Marsh
المصدر: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases, Vol 16, Iss 1, Pp 1-4 (2021)
بيانات النشر: BMC, 2021.
سنة النشر: 2021
المجموعة: LCC:Medicine
مصطلحات موضوعية: Rare diseases, Drug development, Knowledge bases, Registries, Research design, Data management, Medicine
الوصف: Abstract Data silos are proliferating while research and development activity explode following genetic and immunological advances for many clinically described disorders with previously unknown etiologies. The latter event has inspired optimism in the patient, clinical, and research communities that disease-specific treatments are on the way. However, we fear the tendency of various stakeholders to balkanize databases in proprietary formats, driven by current economic and academic incentives, will inevitably fragment the expanding knowledge base and undermine current and future research efforts to develop much-needed treatments. The proliferation of proprietary databases, compounded by a paucity of meaningful outcome measures and/or good natural history data, slows our ability to generate scalable solutions to benefit chronically underserved patient populations in ways that would translate to more common diseases. The current research and development landscape sets too many projects up for unnecessary failure, particularly in the rare disease sphere, and does a grave disservice to highly vulnerable patients. This system also encourages the collection of redundant data in uncoordinated parallel studies and registries to ultimately delay or deny potential treatments for ostensibly tractable diseases; it also promotes the waste of precious time, energy, and resources. Groups at the National Institutes of Health and Food and Drug Administration have started programs to address these issues. However, we and many others feel there should be significantly more discussion of how to coordinate and scale registry efforts. Such discourse aims to reduce needless complexity and duplication of efforts, as well as promote a pre-competitive knowledge ecosystem for rare disease drug development that cultivates and accelerates innovation.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 1750-1172
Relation: https://doaj.org/toc/1750-1172
DOI: 10.1186/s13023-021-01806-4
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/765210832e944959ba2a8c080ec7e704
رقم الانضمام: edsdoj.765210832e944959ba2a8c080ec7e704
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:17501172
DOI:10.1186/s13023-021-01806-4