A case study of visualization to assess the progress of drug discovery research projects in academia: the possibility of building a support system based on common milestones for facilitating collaboration with industry

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to visualize drug discovery research projects in academia in order to assess their progress and provide strategies for facilitating collaboration with industry. We divided academia’s drug discovery research data package into in vitro and in vivo milestones. Then, we set up the Drug Seeds Alliance Network Japan (DSANJ) original study data package required in each milestone by analyzing an oncology academic drug discovery research project. The Proof of Mechanism (PoM) data was the key to the realization of research alliances in Japan. We discuss ideal support systems to 1) visualize, 2) assess, and 3) revise the progress of academic research projects based on common milestones with industry partners.