Our Partners
Critical Path Institute (C-Path)
Critical Path Institute (C-Path) is a nonprofit, public-private partnership with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) created under the auspices of the FDA’s Critical Path Initiative program in 2005. C-Path’s aim is to accelerate the pace and reduce the costs of medical product development through the creation of new data standards, measurement standards, and methods standards that aid in the scientific evaluation of the efficacy and safety of new therapies. These pre-competitive standards and approaches have been termed “drug development tools” (DDTs) by the FDA, which established a process for official review and confirmation of their validity for a given context of use.
C-Path orchestrates the development of DDTs through an innovative, collaborative approach to the sharing of data and expertise. They build consensus among participating scientists from industry and academia with FDA participation and iterative feedback. The process culminates in a formal application to FDA for official “qualification” of the DDT for a given use in product development. Qualified DDTs then become open standards for the scientific community which, in turn, may be assured both of the scientific rigor under which they were developed and of the FDA’s understanding and acceptance of their validity.
C-Path connects the College of Pharmacy with new opportunities for local biotech and pharma companies.
UArizona Functional Genomics Core (RRID:SCR_023433)
The Functional Genomics Core enables researchers at the University of Arizona and across southern Arizona to perform high-throughput screening for a wide range of projects from drug discovery to foundational questions of cell biology and gene function. We provide custom laboratory automation pipelines for researchers as needed. We provide equal access to our facilities and services to all researchers regardless of the scope or scale of their projects.
The Functional Genomics Core is committed to supporting our local Biotech community. All of our instruments and services are available for use by off campus researchers.