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The NSMF Initiative: New Safe Medicines Faster

EFB Section on Medicines Development

NSMF follows two tracks:

Streamlining: Activities to optimise or reengineer the current drug research & development processes utilising contemporary scientific knowledge by removing bottlenecks and developing new tools.
Fresh approach: To re-evaluate the entire process and create a new efficient flow of knowledge generation and management without compromising safety based on the scientific advances within e.g. the genome research.

Patients are increasingly being involved in the process of medicines development. Recently a book on this has been published: It’s MY life, Patient Power - A new revolution, by Simon Rozendaal.
See Flyer (pdf)

With over 1300 participants from more than 70 countries, and almost 600 poster presentations, the European Congress on Biotechnology was a great success. The Health & Medicine stream of the ECB13 was organised by the EFB Section on Medicines Development.
Read a brief summary of the sessions (pdf).
Medicines Development Newsletter October-2007
The Innovative Medicines Initiative has launched www.imi-europe.org

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