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Free And Open: The Next Wave In Clinical Trial Data?

 
• By William Looney

Transparency is an issue that continues to pose reputational challenges for biopharma. A key flashpoint is the disclosure – under open access rules – of clinical trial data in a climate of mounting therapeutic competition. Still, some industry players are pushing the boundaries around open access. Project Data Sphere, a non-profit group backed by the CEO Roundtable on Cancer, is taking advantage of new IT platforms and the rich target potential in discovery science to press for a larger industry consensus around new ways to release high-value data embedded in years of trials, all for the benefit of cancer patients.

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The long, often heated – and still inconclusive – debate over sharing biopharma’s clinical trial data with outside researchers is entering a new phase. Advocates of increased disclosure, many with ties to the industry, are pushing companies to pursue joint action around an advanced, technology-assisted data sharing model that puts the spotlight directly on unresolved issues of science, turning raw numbers into fresh clinical insights to benefit patients.

The operative concept is to make the vast streams of private and publicly held data not only accessible, but coherent too. “It’s time to open the spigot on underutilized trial...

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