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October 21, 2013 7:00 AM UTC

Genetic Alliance issued a request for proposals to offer its crowd-sourced Platform for Engaging Everyone Responsibly (PEER). Genetic Alliance will offer a customized, organization-branded installation of PEER to up to nine disease and/or condition advocacy organizations (DAOs) that have not yet experienced a public meeting under PDUFA V, which requires FDA to hold at least 20 public meetings over a five-year span to prospectively inform benefit-risk assessments. The PEER installation will allow a DAO to collect patient perspectives on a condition's severity and current unmet medical needs. Genetic Alliance's goal is to provide FDA with data to help determine benefit-risk considerations for patient-focused drug development and regulatory review process. Patients will chose with whom to share their data. ...