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Vivli webinar with CRDSA: “Mind the Data Sharing Gap: Navigating sponsor policies and data protection methodologies.”

Vivli hosted CRDSA to explore findings of their newly published whitepaper, “A Review of BioPharma Sponsor Data Sharing Policies and Protection Methodologies.”

The webinar was held on October 6th, 11am EDT/8am PDT/5pm CEST.

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This one-hour webinar featured the authors from the CRDSA’s new white paper “A Review of BioPharma Sponsor Data Sharing Policies and Protection Methodologies” in a lively a moderated discussion with CRDSA’s CEO, Aaron Mann. This webinar explored findings from the white paper that examines sponsor’s data sharing policies and protection methodologies as well as reflections on actionable steps for sponsors and secondary analysis researchers alike.

  • For Researchers: Understand the policy and privacy elements that can impact research utility
  • For Data Contributors: Identify meaningful benchmarks to help guide policy development

Read the whitepaper here!

Speakers include:
Luk Arbuckle, Chief Methodologist, Privacy Analytics (an IQVIA company)
Liz Roberts, Senior Director, Data Policy and Privacy Lead, UCB

Moderated by:
Aaron Mann, CRDSA CEO

 

Bayer Signs Up as a Member of Vivli

“We are thrilled to welcome Bayer as a member of Vivli,” said Rebecca Li, Vivli Executive Director. “We look forward to supporting researchers to request and analyze Bayer’s data securely.”

As a global leader in healthcare and nutrition, Bayer offers innovative products that support efforts to overcome challenges presented by a growing and aging global population by helping to prevent, alleviate and treat diseases.

“We are very excited to join Vivli and the large global community of leading clinical trial sponsors engaged in data sharing. Vivli offers a great opportunity for Bayer to further strengthen our commitments to transparency and data sharing for our clinical trials”, says Sigrid Achenbach, Head of Clinical Trial Transparency at Bayer.

For more information about the conditions for accessing Bayer anonymized data from completed clinical trials, please visit their member page. For additional information about Membership in Vivli, learn more here.

President Selects former Vivli External Advisory Committee member as National Cancer Institute Director

Vivli enthusiastically congratulates Dr. Monica Bertagnolli on her recent appointment as Director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI).

Dr. Bertagnolli has served as a long-time member on the Vivli External Advisory Committee.

“We are glad to see Dr. Monica Bertagnolli take on such an impactful role and we wish her all the best,” said Rebecca Li, Executive Director.

Biden Selects Harvard Professor as National Cancer Institute Director – The Harvard Crimson

Vivli Executive Director Dr. Rebecca Li Speaking at 2022 Biomedical Transparency Summit

Vivli’s Executive Director, Dr. Rebecca Li, will be speaking at the Center for Biomedical Research Transparency’s 2022 Biomedical Transparency Summit on September 7th for “NIH Data Sharing Policy  – What you need to know!” Dr. Li will speak alongside NIH’s Active Director of the Office of Science Policy, Dr. Lyric Jorgenson and NIH’s Associate Director for Data Science, Dr. Susan K. Gregurick.

Dr. Li will be speaking at the Wednesday, September 7, session. Register today.

The 2022 Biomedical Transparency Summit is a virtual program of 2 webinars that brings together leaders in publishing, private and publicly funded research, policymakers and technology to share the latest transparency developments impacting research practice.

Webinar 1 will take place Wednesday, September 7 at 3pm EDT/NY, 8pm BST/London. Webinar 2 will take place Wednesday, September 14 at 3pm EDT/NY, 8pm BST/London. Attendees can expect to hear thought-provoking presentations, panel discussions and Q&A sessions around each of the day’s topics. Learn more information here.

NIH HEAL Initiative® joins Vivli as a member

Vivli welcomes our newest partner platform as a member, the NIH Helping to End Addiction Long-term® Initiative, or NIH HEAL Initiative®, an aggressive, trans-agency effort to speed scientific solutions to stem the national opioid public health crisis.

“We are delighted to include the NIH HEAL Initiative as a member of Vivli,” said Rebecca Li, Vivli Executive Director. “Making these valuable studies available for searching on Vivli is helping to ensure that researchers and the public can find and access them along with the other pain and addiction clinical research data on Vivli. Access of these data will drive scientific discovery, research dissemination and adoption to advance human health.”

Virtually every NIH Institute and Center is accelerating research through the NIH HEAL Initiative to address this public health emergency from all angles. A centerpiece effort to achieving HEAL’s mission is the HEAL Data Ecosystem, which aims to transform research data, findings, and publications into a virtual, annotated, searchable catalog where datasets can be analyzed, compared, and combined.

“HEAL-generated data holds the key to helping patients and communities devastated by the opioid crisis, as well as those seeking relief for unmanaged chronic pain that limits all aspects of life. Vivli offers a valuable tool for researchers in HEAL and beyond to access this rich set of data stored in various repositories that meet security and privacy standards – giving HEAL researchers a great option to leverage their data for new discovery and long-term preservation,” said Rebecca Baker, Ph.D., director of the initiative.

For more information about how the NIH HEAL Initiative supports its investigators to share their data on Vivli, please visit their member page. For additional information about Vivli membership, learn more.

Vivli Executive Director Dr. Rebecca Li Presenting at PHUSE Data Transparency Summer 2022 Event

Vivli’s Executive Director, Dr. Rebecca Li, will be presenting at the PHUSE Data Transparency Summer Event on June 28-30 alongside co-author Rebecca Sudlow, Roche. They will be presenting their abstract titled, “Accelerated sharing of COVID-19 Trial data via the Vivli Global Data Sharing Platform.”

Dr. Li will be speaking at the Wednesday, June 29, session.

Taking place virtually across three days, the Data Transparency Summer Event will run in bitesize sessions from 15:00 to 17:30 GMT (10:00AM to 12:30PM EDT) each day. Attendees can expect to hear thought-provoking presentations, panel discussions and Q&A sessions around each of the day’s topics.

 

 

Vivli study published in Contemporary Clinical Trials

Eighteen months into the COVID-19 pandemic, the Vivli team, led by Executive Director, Rebecca Li, were among the authors of a paper that analyzed data sharing intentions among trials registered through clinicaltrials.gov. The team found that positive intentionality to share IPD remained static at 15% in this much larger sample size of 2,759 relevant trials (COVID interventional trials).

However, a comparison of declared intention to share IPD in data sharing statements at the time of publication revealed a noticeable shift: affirmative intentions grew from 21.4% to 57%. Within the subset of studies published within journals affiliated with the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), positive sharing intentions were even higher as indicated in data sharing statements (65%).

Vivli Senior Advisor Marcia Levenstein to take the stage at 10th Annual Chief Medical Officer Summit 360º

The 10th annual Chief Medical Office Summit 360º seeks to address the unique challenges associated with directing and managing R&D functions with limited resources, while raising capital and strategizing for growth and appropriate exits. Held on April 4-5, 2022, they will be featuring Vivli’s Senior Advisor, Marcia Levenstein in their featured session, “What Statisticians wish they could tell their CMOs.”

As a panelist, Marcia will share insights on what CMOs need to know about statistics, avoiding common mistakes, strategies for clinical development, the strengths and weaknesses of complex trial designs like Bayesian, and how to maximize the use of statisticians.

Sanofi joins Vivli, a platform for researchers to request its anonymized data and study documents from completed clinical trials

“We are delighted that Sanofi is joining as a Vivli member and making it possible for researchers to request access to anonymized data and accompanying documents from their completed clinical trials,” said Rebecca Li, Vivli Executive Director.
Sanofi is an innovative global healthcare company, driven by one purpose: we chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives.
For more information about the conditions for accessing Sanofi data, please visit their member page. For additional information about Membership in Vivli, learn more here.

Vivli receives award to work with NIH to enhance data sharing

Vivli is part of a collaborative effort to improve access and discoverability of NIH-funded data

January 26, 2022—Today Vivli has been named one of six generalist repositories that will work with the NIH Office of Data Science Strategy (ODSS) as part of the Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI). This initiative will enable better access to and discovery of NIH-funded data among generalist repositories and aims to supplement the domain-specific data repositories that are critical components of the NIH biomedical data ecosystem for data sharing.

“Vivli is delighted to be working with the NIH to ensure that the clinical research funded by the NIH is as discoverable and accessible as possible,” said Rebecca Li, Phd, Vivli Executive Director, co-PI on this award. “We look forward to supporting NIH-funded researchers to support their data sharing efforts. With key partnerships in place to improve the data sharing ecosystem, we have a tremendous opportunity to advance science.”

These repositories will work together to address and implement a common set of capabilities that comply with desirable repository characteristics (NOT-OD-21-016), establish metrics to optimally measure usage and impact, develop use cases for data sharing, and train and educate researchers on FAIR data and the importance of data sharing. This initiative also aims to improve discoverability of data within and across participating generalist repositories and accelerate reproducibility and reuse of data.

“This award opens up opportunities to leverage our unique expertise in the clinical research space and establish a functioning data sharing ecosystem for NIH researchers alongside other generalist repositories”, said Ida Sim, MD, Phd, Professor of Medicine, UCSF, co-founder of Vivli and a Co-PI on this award.

Other than Vivli, GREI includes 5 additional established generalist repositories:
• Dryad
• Dataverse
• Figshare
• Mendeley Data
• Open Science Framework
More information can be found on the NIH website