Basic Research

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Basic Research
Pharmaceutical Industry
Patient
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Pharmaceutical Industry Ireland -
Ireland second largest exporter of
pharmaceuticals in Europe. - 17 of the worlds
top pharmaceutical companies represented in
Ireland Wyeth Astra Zeneca Aventis Pfizer Abb
ot - Export gt32 billion dollars/annum
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• Patient Related Research in Ireland
• sophisticated, edcuated patient cohort.
• supportive of research
• good patient doctor relationships
• clinical data bases and biobanks already
  established
• unique patient cohorts
• Highest rate of colon cancer in the world
• Hepatitis C.

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Patient Care Patient Based Research Engage
Dept Health - patient healthcare today and
tomorrow - HRB beginning Need to link Dept
Health strategies with pharmaceutical industry
industries and with basic research
strategies heart disease obesity heart
disease liver disease
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Patient Related Research - Infrastructure Identif
y and develop small number of Clinical Centres of
Research. Develop in association with Institutes
of Basic Research e.g. Conway Institute of
Biological and Biomedical Research St.Vincents
University Hospital Mater Our Ladys Hospital
for Sick Children
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Patient Related Research Focus Epidemiology Ge
nomics Transcriptomics Proteomics in vitro and
in vivo models Clinical Trials All linked to
clinical databases
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Patient Related Research Expertise Academic
Physicians/Clinical Research Scientists Statistic
s Bioinformatics Genetics Epidemiology Computa
tional Biology
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• Training Career Development
• - Medics (physicians and surgeons) to do Ph.Ds.
• - Opportunity to pursue full time research
  careers
• Science Ph.D and Post-doc programmes to
  integrate clinical aspects
• Clinical Research Scientist Career path
• - Biomedicine and Business

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• Integrate Biomedicine, Biotechnology and ICT
• - Imaging
• Drug targeting
• Bioinformatics/Computational biology
• Teaching/Training

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Integration, Flexibility
Basic Research
Business Patient Care