Patient-focused organizations join forces to build awareness and participation

The innovative medical research philanthropy Cures Within Reach has announced a marketing partnership with PatientsLikeMe to work together to improve patient lives.

Sep. 10, 2013 – SKOKIE, Ill — Cures Within Reach, a non-profit focused on research to repurpose existing compounds for new and immediate use, and PatientsLikeMe, a patient network and real-time research platform, are both thinking out of the box to help patients get what they need in today’s challenging healthcare climate.

Cures Within Reach (www.cureswithinreach.org) is dedicated to saving lives of patients with both complex and rare conditions by sourcing, funding and stewarding research that repurposes FDA-approved drugs, devices and nutriceuticals.  Anecdotally described as “teaching old drugs new tricks,” companies and research institutions rarely embrace this methodology due to low profit potential, while the potential for creating effective and affordable cures or treatments for patients is very high.  Ideas for these projects come from researchers, clinicians and sometimes patients themselves.

PatientsLikeMe® (www.patientslikeme.com) is a patient network that improves lives and a real-time research platform that advances medicine. Through the network, patients connect with others who have the same disease or condition and track and share their own experiences. In the process, they generate data about the real-world nature of disease that help researchers, pharmaceutical companies, regulators, providers, and nonprofits develop more effective products, services and care.

The initial partnership will consist of cross-marketing programs to drive awareness and participation.  “Cures Within Reach is leading the way in a unique research model that makes a tangible difference for patients today.  We are happy to connect with an organization whose work so directly supports our patient community,” says PatientsLikeMe Executive Vice President of Marketing and Patient Advocacy Michael Evers.

Dr. Bruce Bloom, President and Chief Science Officer of Cures Within Reach, shares that moving forward, CWR will “find collaborations with PatientsLikeMe and their powerful patient community that not only increase awareness, but also ultimately strengthen each organization’s research work and patient impact.”

To learn more about PatientsLikeMe, visit www.patientslikeme.com

To learn more about Cures Within Reach, visit www.cureswithinreach.org

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