
As established gains in personalized and targeted therapy have enabled increasingly precise approaches to disease, novel technologies are expanding what is possible while creating new challenges for drug developers.
April 26, 2016.
In the US, patients, caregivers and advocates, drug developers and the FDA have moved towards a patient-centered approach to drug development. The National Cancer Moonshot, a task force led by Vice President Joseph Biden, includes this patient-centric strategy in its agenda: Seeking to facilitate collaborations with researchers, doctors, philanthropies, patients, patient advocates, and biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies to accelerate the early detection and treatment of cancer, its goal is a decade’s worth of advances in five years.



