Multistakeholder Collaborations are Vital to Advancing Technologies in Parkinson’s

TUCSON, Ariz., July 6, 2023 — Critical Path Institute (C-Path) and the Center for Health + Technology (CHeT) at University of Rochester today announced the release of two seminal publications about digital health technologies for Parkinson’s. These technologies, such as smartphones and wearable sensors, offer an opportunity for objective, frequent and remote assessment of people with Parkinson’s.Continue reading

C-Path’s TRxA Announces $750,000 in Research Awards to Accelerate its First Drug Development Projects

TUCSON, Ariz., June 28, 2023 — Critical Path Institute’s (C-Path) Translational Therapeutics Accelerator (TRxA) announced today its first two research grants supporting academic scientists in advancing novel compounds through the drug development process. Launched in June 2022, TRxA is a global drug discovery and development program focused on supporting academic scientists in defining optimal strategies for advancing new, cutting-edge therapeutics, from the lab to patientsContinue reading

C-Path Appoints Key Scientific Leaders to Executive Roles

TUCSON, Ariz., March 29, 2023 — Critical Path Institute (C-Path) announced today the appointment of three accomplished leaders to key executive roles within the organization. Cheryl D. Coon, Ph.D., joins C-Path as the Vice President for the Clinical Outcome Assessment (COA) Program. Shu Chin Ma, Ph.D., M.Sc., M.Phil., EMBA, has been named Vice President of Model-Informed Drug Development (MIDD) and the Quantitative Medicine (QuantMed) Program. Alexandre Bétourné, Ph.D., Pharm.D., has been promoted to Executive Director of the Rare Disease Cures Accelerator-Data and Analytics Platform (RDCA-DAP).Continue reading

C-Path Receives Letter of Support from EMA for Parkinson’s Disease Clinical Trial Simulation Platform

TUCSON, Ariz., Dec. 20, 2022 — Critical Path Institute (C-Path) today announced that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has issued a letter of support for the Critical Path for Parkinson’s (CPP) Consortium’s Model-based Clinical Trial Simulation Platform to Optimize Design of Efficacy Evaluation Studies in Parkinson’s Disease (PD).Continue reading

C-Path and Ultragenyx Announce Data Sharing Agreement to Support Rare Disease Treatment and Novel Therapies

TUCSON, Ariz., Dec. 1, 2022 — Critical Path Institute (C-Path) and Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical, Inc., (NASDAQ: RARE), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of novel therapies for serious rare and ultra-rare genetic diseases, today announced a data sharing agreement to incorporate rare disease patient data into C-Path’s Rare Disease Cures Accelerator-Data and Analytics Platform (RDCA-DAP®).Continue reading