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Vivli Executive Director to take part in panel at Duke-FDA event on rare diseases and data sharing

Vivli Executive Director, Rebecca Li, will take part in a panel discussion as part of Data Sharing to Accelerate Therapeutic Development for Rare Diseases hosted by Duke and the FDA. Her session will focus on platform analytics tools to support data sharing and drug development for rare diseases.

The Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy, through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Food & Drug Administration, is convening a two-day public meeting on August 18th and 19th, to discuss the importance of data sharing for accelerated therapeutic development in rare disease as well as considerations for sustaining and leveraging a robust data sharing infrastructure to support innovative rare disease trial design. The meeting will explore several topics including:

  • The importance of shared data to support innovation and quality in the drug development pipeline for rare diseases
  • Approaches and challenges to ensuring data quality, standardization, and interoperability in shared data resources
  • The role of regulatory agencies in strengthening rare disease data collection and shared data resources

Please see the event page for more details and to register for the event.