Naperville , Illinois

Accelerate Progress is devoted to bringing about faster access to promising and potentially life-saving new therapies for patients fighting cancer and other diseases. We will provide expertise, direction, communication, and passion for both patients and progress. Accelerate Progress is focused on accelerating access to promising and potentially lifesaving new therapeutics through the broad adoption and use of better policy and better science. Better science to Accelerate Progress means better trial designs, more use of advanced statistical analysis methods, better communication and collaboration between stakeholders, greater transparency in all aspects of the development and regulatory review processes, validation and increased use of biomarkers and related diagnostics within the development process, and other similar improvements. Better policy means reducing bureacratic delays, improving the efficiency of the systems we use to discover, develop, regulate, and use new therapeutics against disease. 12-15 years to develop a new drug is too long and $1.2-1.5 billion per drug is too much. Both of these numbers are increasing year after year and we must bring a business mindset to improving the system while maintaining and even improving the level of scientific rigor and medical ethics to get new safe and effective treatments to patients more efficiently. [view full description]