Compound rescue is taking a potential drug compound at advanced stage of pharma development but abandoned before drug approval, and testing it a disease that is different than the one it was originally developed for and then abandoned.

Providing permission for something to happen or agreement to do something

Any organisation that provides services relating to clinical research, such as the development of medicines, clinical trials and commercialisation

A control group in a clinical trial is given either an existing standard treatment or a placebo, to serve as a base line for the new medicine's effects to be tested against.

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is the voluntary activities undertaken by a company to operate in an economic, social, and environmentally sustainable manner.

A measure of the economic burden of a disease on society, incorporating all costs of the disease.

A model that details the costs and outcomes of an intervention separately, without combining the two elements

A measure of the value a new treatment provides by looking at the costs per unit of benefit.

A measure of the value a new treatment provides by looking at the costs per unit of benefit.

A model that compares the costs and benefits of two or more interventions