Innovative Medicines Initiative

Research-Project
name=Innovative Medicines Initiative
title=Joint Technology Initiative on Innovative Medicines
keywords=Drug discovery, Drug development
fundingAgency=European Commission
European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA)
frameworkProgramme=FP7


projectType=Joint Technology Initiative (JTI)
researchObjective=Re-invigorate the European bio-pharmaceutical sector and to make Europe more attractive for private research and development (R&D) investment in this sector
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coordinator=
participants=
budget=2 billion EUR
funding=1 billion EUR
start=2008
end=2017
website=http://imi.europa.eu

The Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) is a European initiative to improve the competitive situation of the European Union in the field of pharmaceutical research. The IMI is a joint initiative (Public-Private Partnership) of the DG Research of the European Commission, representing the European Communities, and the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA). IMI is laid out as a Joint Technology Initiative within the Seventh Framework Programme.

The Innovative Medicines Initiative is aimed towards removing research bottlenecks in the current drug development process. The IMI Joint Technology Initiative (IMI JTI), to be implemented by the IMI Joint Undertaking is meant to address these research bottlenecks.

The Sixth Framework Programme's research projects InnoMed AddNeuroMed and InnoMed PredTox act as pilot projects establishing the feasibility of this particular public-private partnership [Reference on EFPIA's IMI site [http://www.imi-europe.org/pilot%20project/pages/default.aspx] ] .

ee also

* European Technology Platform
* Framework Programmes for Research and Technological Development
* Seventh Framework Programme
* Joint Technology Initiative
* InnoMed PredTox

References

* Hughes V., "Europe pledges billions to solve its drug development woes", Nat Med. 2008 Feb;14(2):107
* [http://www.medicinesformankind.eu/upload/pdf/IMI_EN.pdf Innovative Medicines Initiative]
* [http://cordis.europa.eu/lifescihealth/innomed_intro.htm Technology Platform for Innovative Medicines]
* [http://imi.europa.eu/docs/imi-factsheet_en.pdf Fact sheet] provided by the European Commission

External links

* [http://imi.europa.eu Innovative Medicines Initiative] European Commission website
* [http://www.imi-europe.org Innovative Medicines Initiative] EFPIA website