Pharma majors in public-private partnership to help accelerate Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other brain disease research

14 June 2010

Some of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies last Friday unveiled a ground-breaking collaboration to help speed research into new treatments diseases of the brain such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's to override competitive concerns and share the findings of their investigations.

A new database of more than 4,000 Alzheimer's disease patients who have participated in 11 industry-sponsored clinical trials was released by the Coalition Against Major Diseases (CAMD). This is the first database of combined clinical trials to be openly shared by pharmaceutical companies and made available to qualified researchers around the world.

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