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The Accelerated Cure Project and DSG, Inc. Team Up to Accelerate Multiple Sclerosis Research
MALVERN, PA and WALTHAM, MA (November 1, 2005) The Accelerated Cure
Project for Multiple Sclerosis, a national nonprofit dedicated to
curing MS by determining its causes, and DSG, Inc., the industry's
largest privately-held electronic data capture (EDC) solutions
corporation, have partnered to create their MS Data Repository. The
expanded system will provide real time access to researchers world
wide, rapidly increasing the flow of information critical in
accelerating the march to a cure.
Multiple Sclerosis, or MS, is a chronic demyelinating disorder of the
central nervous system affecting over 400,000 people in the US and
over 2 million people worldwide. There are 200 new cases diagnosed
each week, yet even today the causes are unknown and there is no cure.
To accelerate the process of determining the cause(s) of MS and
develop a cure, the Accelerated Cure Project has established an MS
Sample and Data repository to facilitate promising areas of research.
The repository initially consists of a 1000+ subject longitudinal
registry conducted at investigator sites nationwide. With the
addition of new collection sites and subjects as participants, the
project will expand into a large-scale, multidisciplinary MS
Repository. The data and samples will be made available to
researchers as an open resource, to promote continued MS research and
to determine a cure for this debilitating disease.
DSG's flagship EDC product, eCaseLinkTM will be used to
streamline the clinical trial process and provide real-time access to
the clinical trial data for the Cure Map. By establishing a repository
of the most current information accessible to researchers around the
world, ACP hopes to significantly shorten the quest for this cure. As
eCaseLinkTM has been utilized in numerous central nervous
system studies and registries, DSG is best suited to utilize this
expertise to provide the most timely, accurate and cleanest data for
the study.
"Currently, there is no longitudinal repository of blood, and
epidemiological and clinical data from people with MS available to
researchers looking for the causes," said Art Mellor, President and
CEO of Accelerated Cure. "Scientists need access to data on a large
scale to make headway into developing a cure. The MS data repository
can accomplish this through electronic data capture technology. DSG
will help us manage and streamline the data collection now, as well as
assist in the expanded collection process as the project grows.
eCaseLinkTM is the best tool to support our efforts to
determine the causes of MS."
"The Accelerated Cure Project has done a great thing in spearheading
this effort to determine a cure for Multiple Sclerosis," said Tony
Varano, President and CEO of DSG, Inc. "With eCaseLink, the MS Data
Repository will be available in real-time to researchers around the
world. As the repository grows, eCaseLink's scalability will provide
the most robust tool for data analysis and information gathering. We
are proud to provide both the best tools for reaching this laudable
goal and to support this great organization financially in this
monumental research program."
About DSG, Inc.
Since 1992, DSG, Inc. has been supporting clinical trial data
collection with innovative technology solutions including EDC, ePRO
and digital on-demand CRF publishing software to over 300 companies in
the life science industry. DSG's products allow friendly, accurate
and efficient data capture at any investigator site regardless of the
site's technological infrastructure. ECaseLinkTM, DSG's pioneering
EDC technology, allows site users immediate server edits, without the
traditional need to first save or submit, is fully integrated with
eDiaryLinkTM ePRO, and offers the highest site acceptance, fastest
submission speed, and nominal set up time. DSG has successfully
supported over 250 clinical trials, at over 14,000 sites, with over
200,000 patients worldwide. For more information, please visit
www.dsg-us.com.
About Accelerated Cure Project
Accelerated Cure Project for Multiple Sclerosis,
www.acceleratedcure.org, is a national nonprofit organization
dedicated to curing Multiple Sclerosis (MS) by determining its
causes. Accelerated Cure Project believes this effort can be
accelerated by organizing the research process and encouraging
collaboration between research organizations and clinicians. A
"Cure Map" is currently being developed by the Accelerated
Cure Project to establish what is known and what is not known about
the causes of MS. From the Cure Map, Accelerated Cure Project will
facilitate research most likely to reveal the causes of MS in the
shortest time through a large-scale, multidisciplinary, MS Repository. For more information about the Accelerated Cure
Project or to make a corporate or individual donation, call
781/487-0008, visit acceleratedcure.org, or send an email to info-web1207_no_spam_please_@i_mean_it.no_spam_whatsoever.acceleratedcure.org.
About Multiple Sclerosis
Multiple Sclerosis is a chronic demyelinating disorder of the central
nervous system that often results in severe disability including the
inability to walk, blindness, cognitive dysfunction, extreme fatigue
and other serious symptoms. MS affects over 400,000 people in the US
and 2 million individuals worldwide. The disorder occurs twice as
often in women as in men. The cause is not known and there is no
known cure.
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