Whether you're a patient, advocate or researcher, what are you most hopeful will emerge from the biopharmaceutical pipeline in the coming years?

Thumbnail: Contributors: 121913971404Contributions: Read Marc Boutin's bio As we all know, there are hundreds of thousands of people in this country with unmet medical needs. They are desperately seeking new treatments, let alone cures, for their conditions. I represent an organization that addresses systemic issues that impact the lives of all people living with chronic diseases and disabilities, so I struggle with identifying any one new treatment for any specific condition that we want to emerge from the biopharmaceutical pipeline. What I am hopeful for – and the patient community is already seeing emerging signs of it becoming a reality – is a concerted effort to instill greater engagement by people with chronic conditions in the drug development process. Companies are beginning to involve patients at the front end of the continuum. Manufacturers are eliciting the patient perspective in new ways and seeking the means to incorporate those views broadly. By defining what product characteristic patients’ value and what outcomes are most meaningful to people with chronic condition, we will see higher-value products. On the regulatory side we are already seeing a concerted effort to better understand the patient perspective through the FDA’s Patient-Focused Drug Development program. This series of meetings with people in specific disease categories is designed to embed the patient experience into the FDA's decision-making process, and private industry is...
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