Nature Medicine | Spoonful of Medicine
Open innovation drug discovery looks to the masses for insight
Companies these days use crowdsourcing for everything from striking gold to marketing facial moisturizer. Now a new startup, Transparency Life Sciences, hopes to harness that collaborative power to make clinical trials more effective and efficient by asking the opinions of doctors as well as patients and their families. The company, launched last month and based in New York, is the latest in a string of so-called ‘open innovation’ drug development initiatives. But until now most of these efforts have only crowdsourced from a limited group: researchers.
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