April 18, 2012 - Engaging with FDA: A Guide for Foundation Funders of Research
Learn from the experiences of senior leaders of two foundations that are pioneers in engaging in product development and in working with the FDA.
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March 21, 2012 - Collaboration in Action
Learn about The Learning Collaborative, which includes nonprofit and academic partners who collaborate with The National Institutes of Health Therapeutics for Rare & Neglected Diseases (TRND) program, with the goal of targeting repurposed drugs as well as novel, new drugs for the treatment of rare blood cancers and to seek industry partners to develop them.
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Feb. 27, 2012 - A Virtual Town Hall with NCATS Leadership
Join the leadership team of the newly created National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences at the NIH at a virtual town hall meeting.
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Oct. 16, 2011 - Q&A with FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg on Regulatory Science
Hear first-hand from FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg details about the agency's action plan for implementing its Regulatory Science Initiative. Learn more about how this effort could stimulate personalized medicine programs, develop medical countermeasures to protect threats to global security, and ensure agency capability to evaluate new, innovative technologies.
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Sept. 16, 2011 - Bits and Bytes: Making Patient Information Available and Meaningful to Researchers
Three distinguished leaders discuss opportunities for accelerating research through improvements in biobanking, the use of electronic medical records, and the release of personal health information for research.
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June 22, 2011 - The Alzforum Example: How to Build a Thriving Online Research Community
In this Webinar, Gabrielle Strobel shares how the Alzheimer Research Forum has managed to advance a forward-looking research agenda while inspiring similar communities in other disease areas.
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May 18, 2011 - Data-Sharing Policies and Opportunities for Nonprofit Funders of Research
Webinar features Stephen Friend, president and co-founder of Sage Bionetworks, and John Wilbanks, vice president of science at Creative Commons, discussing projects their organizations are engaged in that are testing the boundaries of data sharing.
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April 20, 2011 - Unlocking IP: A Legal Roadmap for Non-Profit Disease Funders
Webinar features attorneys Ken Schaner and David Lubitz and Linda Johnson of JDRF on how to craft the most thoughtful, responsible approaches to intellectual property.
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March 16, 2011 - NIH Director Francis Collins joins FasterCures in a Webinar about the proposed NCATS
Webinar features NIH Director Francis Collins laying out NIH's proposal for the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
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June 24, 2010 - Emerging Therapies: From Microscope to Marketplace
View the archive of a webcast featuring a panel of leading research experts convened by the Parkinson's Action Network at Georgetown University on the drug development pipeline. Designed to provide participants with a better understanding of how research is moved through the pipeline and ultimately into the hands of patients in the form of new therapies and drugs.

April 12, 2010 - Accessing Shelved Compounds Through the CTSA Pharmaceutical Assets Portal
An interactive Webinar about the Pharmaceutical Assets Portal created by Clinical and Translational Sciences Awards (CTSA) consortium funded by NIH. The Portal is designed to facilitate the transfer of investigational drugs and biologics for academic research by forging relationships with the pharmaceutical/biotech industry. It helps "match" researchers with pharmaceutical assets that may be useful in elucidating disease mechanisms or for discovery of new uses in clinical treatment.
Speakers:
- Kate Marusina, Ph.D., MBA, Manager, Research Facilitation and Industry Alliance, Clinical and Translational Science Center, University of California Davis School of Medicine
- Dean J. Welsch, Research Fellow, Pfizer Global Research & Development, Indications Discovery Research Unit
Moderator:
Margaret Anderson, FasterCures

March 25, 2010 - Developing Cures with Less Time & Capital
Webinar features three philanthropies - the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Scott Cook & Signe Ostby Foundation - joining forces to support Myelin Repair Foundation's accelerated drug development model.

Aug. 13, 2009 - FasterCures Web Briefing on Philanthropy Advisory Service (PAS) Assessments of Select Alzheimer's Disease and Multiple Sclerosis Organizations
Webinar featured PAS assessments of select organizations involved in researching cures on Alzheimer's disease and multiple sclerosis.

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