Project Data Sphere tops first-year target

Data-sharing consortium Project Data Sphere LLC said on Monday that it accrued comparator-arm clinical trial data from 26,000 patient lives, which surpassed the first-year target of 25,000 lives the not-for-profit set when the CEO Roundtable on Cancer's Life Sciences Consortium launched the project in April 2014.

PDS allows companies, academics and patient groups to share cancer data from the comparator arms of clinical trials with the goal of improving the design and efficiency of trials (see BioCentury, April 14, 2014). ...