The DDCOI’s mission is to provide pharmaceutical expertise and project management resources to accelerate the translation of discoveries into therapeutics.
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We offer a non-profit alternative to more traditional approaches to early drug development:
- We work with disease research foundations, academia, industry, government and investors to identify synergistic, mutual objectives and create partnerships to share early development costs.
- We utilize a virtual business model to focus research investments on efficient execution of drug development tasks, rather than the creation of infrastructure.
- We provide deep pharmaceutical development expertise and oversight to establish and manage project plans and drive crisp go/no-go decision making.
- We provide end-to-end data analysis and troubleshooting to facilitate the creation of a successful application for IND and beyond.
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Recent News
April 19, 2012
The Kauffman Foundation report, “Valuing Health Care: Improving Productivity and Quality,” was released today at The Atlantic’s fourth annual Health Care Forum in Washington, DC. Dr. Paula Ehrlich, President & CEO of the Drug Discovery Center of Innovation, was a member of the task force convened to create the report, which focuses on improving the cost-benefit balance in American health care through open access to medical data.
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March 12, 2012
The Drug Discovery Center of Innovation, the Foundation Fighting Blindness, and the National Neurovision Research Institute today announced the completion of a strategic Master Services Agreement. Under the agreement, the Drug Discovery Center of Innovation will provide pharmaceutical development oversight and strategic expertise to support IND-enabling drug development activities for MitoChem Therapeutics, LLC.
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February 23, 2012
Paula Ehrlich and Alex Harris to present the documentary “The Time of Our Lives: Living with Brain Cancer”. At Frank Gallery, 109 East Franklin Street, Chapel Hill. This presentation is part of the Gallery’s Winter/Spring 2012 speaker series on the themes of “Birth, Death, Religion, and Myth.”
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January 11, 2012
"The Time of Our Lives" is a glimpse into how two individuals and their families are living their lives in the knowledge and context of having brain cancer. Their story, told through still photographs and enriched by each patient's voice and the perspective of their physician, is about the time of our lives, how we think about time, and choose to live in that time.
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