Genome Medicine


Editorial

Sharing knowledge: a new frontier for public-private partnerships in medicine

Charles Auffray 1*

Author Affiliations

1 Functional Genomics and Systems Biology for Health, CNRS Institute of Biological Sciences, 7 rue Guy Moquet BP8, 94801 Villejuif, France


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Genome Medicine 2009, 1:29doi:10.1186/gm29

Published: 4 March 2009

Abstract

To help overcome the bottlenecks that limit the development of diagnostic and therapeutic products, academic and industrial researchers, patient organizations and charities, and regulatory and funding institutions should redefine the basis for sharing the knowledge collected in large-scale clinical and experimental studies.