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New Trends In R&D Partnering: Biopharma’s Bet On The US Veterans Administration

 
• By William Looney

The US Veterans Administration is attracting more interest from drugmakers seeking to grow their foothold in the lucrative – but scientifically challenging – market for CNS disorders. The allure comes from VA’s strong analytics and data crunching capabilities as well as its investigatory and trial management expertise in high-profile areas like traumatic brain injury, post-traumatic stress and major depression.

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Biopharma’s inherent shortage of new product leads means that finding a good external research partner has become a strategic imperative. It’s a task made harder by the fact that the dance card of the best players in science is full. So, as the search for that “partner of choice” widens, In Vivo offers up a closer look at the R&D arm of the country’s largest single provider of integrated patient care: the US Veterans Administration (VA).

The time is certainly right. The Office of Research and Development (ORD) has a new chief, Rachel Ramoni, ScD, DMD,...

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