Big data is transforming everything from the way we drive to the way we shop or even the way we consume energy. But when it comes to healthcare and fighting diseases, it still takes 10 or more years to bring a drug or treatment to market. What’s more, 90% of drugs in development fail. A big reason is that all the disparate data being collected from doctors, hospitals, clinical trials and patient outcomes reside in silos – thus not functioning together, and that only seems poised to get worse. The volume of human molecular data is growing rapidly, but analytic capabilities aren’t keeping up. That is essentially slowing progress in finding potential cures and more effective treatments.
To overcome this challenge, a platform that can digest, organize and make sense of all the different data types and sources is needed – and that’s where CytoReason and its Disease Model Platform come in.
CytoReason’s platform has benefited Poolbeg Pharma, which has been using it to find novel approaches for treating influenza. Poolbeg’s disease progression data from influenza human challenge trials combined with CytoReason’s disease model platform led to the discovery of multiple novel drug targets for the treatment of influenza.
Poolbeg Pharma plc (LON:POLB) is a clinical stage infectious disease pharmaceutical company, with a novel capital light clinical model which enables us to develop multiple products faster and more cost effectively than the traditional biotech model.