The call for applications to present at Partnering for Cures 2011 is now closed. We would like to thank everyone for their submissions and interest in presenting at this year's Partnering meeting. All applications are currently being evaluated by our external review committee. We will be announcing selected presenters in September. Continue to check back for further details.

Application Criteria:

• Presenting organizations may be nonprofit foundations, pharmaceutical and/or biotechnology companies, research institutes, universities, government agencies, investors and private philanthropists; however, partnerships must include representatives from at least two of these sectors, and one of them must be a not-for-profit entity (i.e., foundation, university, or government agency)
• Partnerships should be six months old or more, and should be able to demonstrate some degree of progress against their established goals
• For the purposes of this year's event, we are particularly interested in applicants whose partnerships address one or more of the following:

• • Asset Repurposing/Drug Repositioning

  • Intellectual Property Management

  • Translation/Commercialization of Early Stage Academic Discoveries

  • Data Sharing

  • Clinical Trial Innovation

• Any partner may apply, but FasterCures will only review one application per partnership

PLEASE NOTE: Selected initiatives/partnerships will be limited to no more than two presenters each. Presenters must be paid meeting registrants.

Evaluation Criteria:

• Degree to which partnership addresses one or more of the five issue areas listed above
• Degree to which partnership shows evidence of transformative potential
• Degree to which partnership can demonstrate progress against defined milestones [internal]
• Degree to which partnership can demonstrate having "moved the needle" on the issue/challenge it was established to address [external]
• Degree to which partnership model is scalable (or replicable) across diseases or sectors