Sponsors meet scientists to speed pediatric medicines development

Jonathan M Davis; William E Smoyer; Edward M Connor; W Charles Huskins; Cindy Pastern; Mary Purucker; Elisabeth C Schrader; Cynthia R Jackson; Frederick J Kaskel; Steven Hirschfeld

doi:10.1126/scitranslmed.aaa2045

Sponsors meet scientists to speed pediatric medicines development

Sci Transl Med. 2015 Mar 18;7(279):279fs11. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aaa2045.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pediatrics, The Floating Hospital for Children and the Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Boston, MA 02111, USA. jdavis@tuftsmedicalcenter.org.
² Center for Clinical and Translational Research, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH 43205, USA. Clinical and Translational Research Institute, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC 20010, USA.
³ Clinical and Translational Research Institute, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC 20010, USA.
⁴ Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA.
⁵ CTSA Consortium Coordinating Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232, USA.
⁶ National Center for Advancing Translational Science, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
⁷ Pediatric Center of Excellence, Quintiles, Inc., Durham, NC 27703, USA.
⁸ Pediatric Center of Excellence, Quintiles, Inc., Durham, NC 27703, USA. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA.
⁹ Department of Pediatrics, Montefiore Medical Center, New York, NY 10467, USA.
¹⁰ National Institute for Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.

Abstract

The Point-Person Project, a child-health research initiative, enables rapid response to opportunities for participation in multicenter pediatric clinical trials.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Biomedical Research / trends*
Chemistry, Pharmaceutical / methods
Child
Clinical Trials as Topic
Drug Design
Humans
National Institutes of Health (U.S.)
Pediatrics / methods*
Research Design
United States

Abstract

Publication types

MeSH terms

Grants and funding