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"Open Source" Drug Development Company Launched

Posted by samzenpus on from the wisdom-of-the-drugged-crowd dept.

First time accepted submitter awjourn writes "During his years working in pharma R&D, Tomasz Sablinski was frustrated by the industry's need for secrecy and its utter inability to design patient-friendly drug trials. So he founded Transparency Life Sciences, a company that's developing three drugs based on input from patients and physicians, who log onto the company's site and voice their opinions about how drugs should be designed and tested."

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  1. There is a precedent for such groups by postglock · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Despite the claims on their website that "Transparency Life Sciences is the world’s first drug development company based on open innovation", the Open Source Drug Discovery group (based in India) has been doing this for over three years now, focusing on tuberculosis. I'm also aware of "Open Source Drug Discovery for Malaria".

  2. Re:Careful... by ozmanjusri · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Nobody is going to sue them.

    Suing will be the least of their problems.

    They'll be subject to huge FUD and smear campaigns from the get go, have supply and distribution channels blocked, approvals refused and so on ad nauseum.

    It's a shame, but efforts like this to open up our society scare the hell out of governemnt and business interests.

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  3. Re:May we have some new antibiotics? PLEASE????? by Kozz · · Score: 5, Interesting

    By FAR the biggest need for drugs we have is for new antibiotics.

    Nope. That's just a treadmill-like arms race. What you want are bacteriophages.

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