Report of the CTSA PublicPrivate Partnership Steering Committee

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Report of the CTSA Public-Private Partnership
Steering Committee

• CTSA Consortium Oversight Committee Meeting
• October 3, 2007

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Actions from the June Meeting

• Select WorkGroup Topics
• Edit and Refine Topics within PPP Steering
  Committee
• Prioritize Topics for WorkGroup assignment
• (Clear Deliverables, CTSA interest, Cross
  Workgroup Interest) 
• Advance to PI Steering Committee Discussion
  Feedback
• Appoint CTSA Representatives Chair(s)

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Committee Co-Chairs

• Steve Dewhurst (University of Rochester)
• Bill Sandborn (Mayo Clinics-Rochester)
• Key Task of Organizing Committee Activities in
  the Next Year as we Transition to a Workgroup
  Structure that Accomodates a Broadening Base of
  CTSA Membership

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Prioritization of Workgroups

• 7 Workgroups Topics Proposed in June
• Further Discussions in the Committee Aimed at
  Further Developing Their Scope and Goals
• Topics of Inventory Resources and Best Practices
  Broadly Applicable to the Workgroups
• Workgroup Topics Coalesce to 3 Major Areas of
  Interest
• Aggregation of IP Resources
• Agreements
• Education

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Aggregating IP Resources

• Merges Aggregating IP, Inventory Resources and
  Funding Gap Topics
• Goal Identify Common Funding Gaps and
  Opportunities to Fill Them
• via PPP
• Within the CTSA Consortium
• With Private Sector Relations
• With Government Relations
• Approach
• Link Public Databases of CTSA Members in
  Searchable Format
• Develop Approach to Pool and Aggregate IP and
  Resources

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Agreements

• Merges Agreements Consents and Master Agreement
  component of Best Practices Topics
• Goal
• Identify Rate Limiting Steps that Limit
  Collaborative PPP
• Agreements between CTSA Members
• Approach
• Assess Importance of Agreement/Consent
  Standarization, Tracking, Master Agreement
  Clauses and Provisions
• Compare models of PPP used in Member
  Institutions, and Government
• Leverage existing workgroups

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Education

• Merges Topics of Assess Educational Resources and
• Develop Shared Educational Resources
• Goal
• Create Shared Curriculum Reflecting CTSA
  Consortium
• PPP Needs
• Develop entrepreneurial awareness and skill sets
  in Translational Researchers
• Approach
• Inventory Existing Programs
• Determine consortium Needs
• Develop a Sharing and Dissemination Plan

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Workgroup Proposals

• Launch Two WorkGroups Aggregating IP Resources
• Agreements
• Both have high initial enrollment and depth of
  proposed activities
• Continue to Incubate Education Workgroup in
  Committee