Author: Peter Mansell

The Life Sciences Consortium of the US-based CEO Roundtable on Cancer has formally launched Project Data Sphere, a new online platform where registered users can share, integrate and analyse historical patient-level, comparator-arm data from Phase III clinical trials in oncology.

AbbVie has withdrawn its legal challenge to the European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) policy of releasing, on request, Clinical Study Reports (CSRs) and other information from marketing authorisation applications (MAAs).

Clinical-trial data regarded as commercially confidential information (CCI) will be exempt in some circumstances from public disclosure under the new EU clinical-trials Regulation adopted by plenary vote in the European Parliament last week.

PatientsLikeMe, the US-based online platform for the exchange of health data, has entered into a five-year collaboration with Genentech that will look for innovative ways to research patients’ real-world experience with disease and treatment.

US-based pharmaceutical-services provider United BioSource (UBC) will act as the preferred oncology clinical-research partner to RT Oncology Services (RainTree) under a new agreement with the community oncology alliance.