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Partnership for Cures

Partnership for Cures raises funds for Rediscovery Research™ that repurposes approved drugs and devices to quickly create safe, effective and affordable treatments to increase the quality and length of life for patients with life altering diseases.

Why are we so excited about Rediscovery Research?

Because Rediscovery Research creates "new" treatments for patients in a fraction of the time and a fraction of the cost of New Discovery Research. 

Rediscovery Research New Discovery Research
  • 1-3 yrs to impact patients
  • Research costs < $500K
  • 1/10 chance of success
  • "New" treatments have known safety profile and drug interactions
  • Creates low cost treatments physicians already know how to use
  • Reduced healthcare costs
  • 12-19 yrs to impact patients
  • Research costs > $1.5B
  • 1/10,000 chance of success
  • New treatments have UNKNOWN safety profile and drug interactions
  • Creates HIGH cost treatments physicians DON'T know how to use
  • INCREASED healthcare costs

Driving Rediscovery Research through the
Patient Impact Initiative

The Patient Impact Initiative is a collaboration of donors, researchers, institutions, clinicians and patients working together to find, fund and finish Rediscovery Research.  

We sent out our first Request for Applications on February 1, 2011.  The Letters of Intent were due February 15.  We received 126 LOIs!  The 80 complete proposals arrived March 4, 2011, and we have reviewed and ranked them to populate the PII Model Portfolio.  

At the moment the PII Model Portfolio contains 23 Rediscovery Research™ projects in Breast Cancer, Bronchiolitis Obliterans (lung), C diff infection (gastrointestinal), Cerebral Palsy, Cervical Cancer, children’s blood diseases, CLL and CML (blood cancers), Cystic Fibrosis, Epilepsy, IBD (gastrointestinal), Muscular Dystrophy, Premature births, Sarcoidosis (autoimmune disease of the lungs and other organs), Sickle Cell Anemia, SLE (Lupus),Sjögren’s Syndrome, and Type 1 Diabetes.  We have 5 additional projects that might be included after resubmission in Schizophrenia, pulmonary hypertension,  Hydrocephalus, Brain Tumors, and Pulmonary Fibrosis.

Four projects are already funded-metastatic breast cancer at U Chicago, children’s blood diseases at CHOP, and two diabetes at UMass Medical. We have a fifth project in blood cancers partially funded, and are in discussions with funders on several other projects.  
 

We have signed MOUs and other agreements with Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, University of Chicago, Mass General, Rush University Medical Center, UMass Medical Center, University of Southern CA, University of Texas Medical Branch, the Menninger Clinic, Saint Louis University, Sanford Burnham Institute, Ohio State University, University of Cincinnati, University of Washington, Los Angeles Basin Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Dalhousie University, Concordia University, Rutgers, CHOP/U Penn, Weill Cornell, and more to follow.

Make a general PFC donation here, or visit a specific partner page to donate to that cause in the body of their page.

Thank You!

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