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Patient Registries Prove Value As Drug Development Tools

 
• By Mandy Jackson

It's easy for pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to get caught up in biomarkers and scientific clinical endpoints as the end goals in drug development, but a novel, practical approach is gaining momentum: asking the patient what they need or want from new medicines.

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It's easy for pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to get caught up in biomarkers and scientific clinical endpoints as the end goals in drug development, but a novel, practical approach is gaining momentum: asking the patient what they need or want from new medicines.

More companies are using patient registries or creating their own registries to do more than track side effects after new...

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