Our motto at the Pipeline Project....is

"The missing ingredient in development of new therapies is the voice of the patient"

We have been working with FDA as the first Neurological disease to participate in their "Patient Consultants" programs to have well qualified patient advocates at the table or telephone most often when companies seek approval to enter a new phase of development and when they present findings of studies to regulators. Alzheimer's will soon join our program.

We have also worked with a half dozen companies in the past to bring our unique experience to them in their design and planning for clinical trials. This component will be expanding in the near future, so keep a lookout for an announcement to recruit volunteers as Industry PD Consultants.

Other tasks need to be done as well such as tracking developments for our data base of new therapies in the pipeline, and developing and presenting training programs for PD audiences on the importance of the pipeline and what they can do to remove barriers to introduction of safe and effective new treatments for PD. see www.pdpipeline.org for mor information.

Perry