Project description
Improving drug safety
Harmful events associated with certain pharmaceutical drugs are known as adverse drug reactions (ADR) and could be related to the dose or the time of administration, or they could be a result of withdrawal from or failure of therapy. The EU-funded MEDIKURA project has developed a digital infrastructure for collecting and analysing ADR data with a view to improving the safety of medicines. The cloud-based platform is accessible by patients, doctors and pharmaceutical companies as a transparent and centralised approach of reporting ADR. Long term the platform is expected to accelerate data-driven drug discovery and minimise ADR.
Objective
The mission of MEDIKURA is to digitize drug safety: our process innovation helps pharma companies to capture, enrich, and analyze drug-related data provided by patients and doctors. We address the societal problem that more than 200,000 European citizens die from Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs, colloquially referred to as drug side-effects) every year, whereas less than 1% of ADR cases are officially reported by patients and doctors. To improve drug safety, the new EU regulation ICH E2B(R3) came into effect in late 2017 - as a result, pharma companies are subject to increasing cost and time pressure in ADR monitoring.
Our solution is to build the digital infrastructure for ADR data – to improve drug safety, enable more targeted therapies, and accelerate data-driven drug discovery. We streamline the process of capturing, enriching, and analyzing ADR data through a cloud-based platform that connects pharma companies with patients and doctors. Our goal is to replace the decentralized, analogue drug safety process with a transparent, centralized, and digital system. The resulting value proposition to pharma companies is three-fold. In terms of time savings, we reduce the timespan to close a ADR case and report it to public authorities by more than 50%. In terms of money, we can save processing cost of more than 50% per ADR case and reduce liability risk significantly. In terms of data quality, we provide comprehensive information through a digital backchannel to both patients and doctors that allows to enrich drug-related data and prepare it for subsequent analyses.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- medical and health sciences basic medicine pharmacology and pharmacy drug discovery
- medical and health sciences basic medicine pharmacology and pharmacy drug safety
- medical and health sciences health sciences personalized medicine
- natural sciences computer and information sciences data science data exchange
- medical and health sciences basic medicine pharmacology and pharmacy adverse drug reactions
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Programme(s)
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H2020-EU.2.3. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs
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H2020-EU.3. - PRIORITY 'Societal challenges
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H2020-EU.2.1. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies
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Topic(s)
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Funding Scheme
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Funding scheme (or “Type of Action”) inside a programme with common features. It specifies: the scope of what is funded; the reimbursement rate; specific evaluation criteria to qualify for funding; and the use of simplified forms of costs like lump sums.
SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020
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80335 MUNCHEN
Germany
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