Research Management Manual

Published by EATRIS

Translational ResearchResearch and Drug Development

The EATRIS Research Management Manual provides general guidance on how to structure and run a translational research project, from project initiation to project closure, to optimize the translational feasibility of your project.  It also provides the necessary tools and templates, based on best practice experience and established project management methodologies. 

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A target product profile (TPP) outlines the desired characteristics of a new drug or other medical intervention (e.g diagnostic tool). TPPs describe intended use, target populations and other desired attributes of products, including safety and efficacy-related characteristics. In industry TPPs are used as planning tools that guide development towards desired characteristics. In the regulatory context, TPPs are considered as tools to frame development in relation to submission of product dossiers.

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Expert Mentoring Service Information Sheet

Published by EATRIS

Project ManagementEATRISTranslational Medicine support

Advancing promising technologies and therapies towards clinical application is a complex undertaking. Academic research often lacks easy access to regulatory, therapy development expertise, manufacturing, and healthcare practice, leading to high failure rates. For this reason, the European Joint Programme on Rare Diseases (EJP RD) has initiated a mentoring programme for rare disease researchers. The aim of the mentoring is to increase the impact and patient benefit of the excellent science funded in EJP RD. With this mentoring support, applicants will receive project-specific feedback from a panel of drug development, biomarker validation, methodological and regulatory experts tasked with optimizing the translational feasibility of the study.

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Early Drug Discovery and Development Guidelines: For Academic Researchers, Collaborators, and Start- up Companies

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NIHResearch and Drug DevelopmentDrug Discovery GuidelineSmall MoleculeDrug RepurposingTarget Validation Drug DevelopmentNCATS

This manual contains guidelines to develop therapeutic hypotheses, target and pathway validation, proof of concept criteria and generalized cost analyses at various stages of early drug discovery. Various decision points in developing a New Chemical Entity (NCE), description of the exploratory Investigational New Drug (IND) and orphan drug designation, Drug Repurposing and drug delivery technologies are also described and geared toward those who intend to develop new drug discovery and development programs.

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