[opensourcepharma] J&J/U.Toronto collaboration

Tue Sep 9 05:02:18 UTC 2014

Dear Melinda,

These are great initiatives n will help further bridge the gap between
academia n industry,  which is so much desired. More so if the academic
institutions are given freedom to experiment n research.

Much appreciate your efforts and wish you success,  which am sure will
come. Grants and a degree of flexibility for academics can reap rich
dividends for every one to benefit from in the long run.

Best
Urmi
On Tuesday, September 9, 2014, Richter, Melinda [JRDUS] <
MRicht23 at its.jnj.com <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','MRicht23 at its.jnj.com');>>
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>  Hi Els,
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> Yes, that is one of our projects.  J&J has partnered with a newly formed
> organization CCDR (U of T’s Center for Collaborative Drug Research), which
> is an amalgamation of many institutions (academic, research, hospitals) in
> the Toronto area, to fund any proposals that are meeting important unmet
> medical needs in mood disorders and Alzheimer’s.  We will do a call for
> applications  twice a year, the first call starting November 6th with
> first papers due January 6th.  These simple 1-3 page proposals will which
> will go in front of the Joint Steering Committee, which is comprised of J&J
> and UofT representatives.  We will pick the top 10 for more extensive
> applications for which the JSC will offer their resources to help flush
> out.  These applications can be of any type (therapeutics, diagnostics,
> care management, etc.) and can be for any size or dollar amount.
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> The JSC will pick a top selection (top 3-6 projects) with the final
> contenders to be chosen by the CCDR.  J&J has put up the initial pot of
> money but we are requiring a local match for each grant for which we’re
> dedicated to helping raise and are in the process of soliciting those
> matches now.  In addition, we are also opening up our resources at J&J
> including access to compound libraries, expert resources, etc. which can
> also include residency at Janssen Labs.
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> These are all grants with no strings attached.  The Toronto area has a
> number of research institutions that are completely based on the open
> source model and have been quite successful at it, so this is based on
> their experience and history in this domain.  In fact, the Structural
> Genomics Consortium in Toronto has been particularly successful at it and
> is an interesting case study.
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> This is another experiment of ours for which, if successful, we’ll invite
> other pharmas to participate.  We did a similar experiment last year called
> the Cognition Challenge which was a smaller version of this.  This is an
> expansion of that project.
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> Let me know if you have other questions and also happy to talk live.
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> M.
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> *MELINDA RICHTER | Head of Janssen Labs*
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> *From:* Els Torreele [mailto:els.torreele at opensocietyfoundations.org]
> *Sent:* Monday, September 08, 2014 6:17 PM
> *To:* Richter, Melinda [JRDUS]
> *Cc:* opensourcepharma at lists.okfn.org
> *Subject:* J&J/U.Toronto collaboration
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> Hi Melinda,
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> I saw the announcement for an open source research collaboration between
> Janssen and Toronto University:
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> http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/1407678/janssen-inc-and-johnson-johnson-innovation-establish-research-collaboration-with-the-university-of-toronto
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> Is that one of your projects?
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> Seems truly fascinating - can you tell us a bit more about it?
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> How is the open source going to work in practice?
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> And how will the ownership/IP of the results be dealt with?
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> best wishes
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> Els
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