FasterCures - Overview

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Overview

FasterCures' mission is not just to analyze the barriers to faster cures, but to overcome them through action. We do that through programs like these.

Philanthropy Advisory Service
The FasterCures Philanthropy Advisory Service (PAS) is an online marketplace that aims to improve global access to medical solutions by increasing the flow of philanthropic support to nonprofit disease research organizations. PAS is an accessible and transparent resource for the medical research philanthropy community. It features accurate and current scientific data, unbiased organizational analysis, and relevant assessment metrics of the nonprofit disease research landscape.

Innovation/The Redstone Acceleration and Innovation Network (TRAIN)
TRAIN brings together the leadership of organizations known for successfully implementing innovative approaches to funding research to help foster innovation throughout the research community.

Patients Helping Doctors (PHD)
Our PHD Program facilitates the understanding of the critical role patients play in research, with the ultimate goal of increasing patient participation in this process.

Think Research
Accelerating cures must be a goal of the emerging nationwide health information network in addition to improving patient care. Think Research promotes the development of interoperable electronic health records systems that are research-capable.

BioBank Central
BioBank Central is a source of information and news about why biospecimens (tissue and blood) matter to research, how one can donate a tissue sample, how biospecimens are collected, and how biobanks operate.

Intramural Research Program Task Force
A six person task force headed by Nobel Laureate Dr. David Baltimore to recommend to the new Administration a framework within which to refresh the Intramural Research Program, giving it a distinct mission and identity in the service of improving public health.

Partnering for Cures
The Partnering for Cures conference unites the power of philanthropists, medical research foundations, and the biopharmaceutical industry and its investors to promote medical research funding and collaboration leading to the timely development of new therapeutics.