CURE ID crowdsourcing App for novel uses of existing medicines
CURE ID app for health care professionals to report novel uses of existing medicines for patients with difficult-to-treat infectious diseases
Allow clinical community to report experiences treating difficult-to-treat infectious diseases with novel uses of existing FDA-approved drugs
- Focus on infectious diseases lacking adequate treatments, neglected tropical diseases, emerging infectious drug-resistant threats
- Collects simple case report form from caregivers about experience using an approved product for an unapproved use
- Organizes and analyzes data fast for promising new uses for existing drugs
- Collaboration between FDA and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), NIH
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