Informatics Summit Meeting for the Pharmaceutical Industry

In February 2008 the NCRI Informatics Initiative hosted an Informatics Summit for senior representatives from the pharmaceutical industry. The purpose of the Summit was to see what communal needs our colleagues in industry have in informatics topics such as the utilisation of standards and improved access to publicly funded data.

The summit allowed NCRI Informatics to share its thoughts on the developing Cancer Informatics Platform and identified a number of potential community projects that the pharmaceutical industry found useful and interesting. Discussions during the Summit  suggested that there are likely to be several areas of common interest in the “pre competitive space” where pharmaceutical companies can benefit by collaborating with each other and with partners in academia.

In attendance at the meeting, as well as industry leaders, were representatives from the NCRI Informatics Management Board, the NCRI Scientific & Technical Advisory Panel, the United States caBIG™ initiative and NCRI Informatics Coordination Unit. We hope this Summit will provide a mechanism to enable agreement to a unified approach to making the vision of a more collaborative approach to cancer informatics a reality.

NCRI Informatics and industry are now looking more closely at specific projects and issues which were identified during the meeting as being worthy of collaborative efforts.

Statement on Funding of Community-Based Projects

	Please click here to read the Statement on Funding of Community-Based Projects from Professor Alex Markham
	Please click here to read the "Guidance for Submission of Expressions of Interest in Cancer Informatics"