PicnicHealth, a patient-centered health technology company, announced its intent to globally expand its partnership with Roche and Genentech to accelerate neurological disease research through investments in real-world data. The partnership, which launched in 2018 with a custom cohort of 5,000 multiple sclerosis patients, FlyWheelMS, has grown to include investments in Huntington’s Disease, Alzheimer’s Disease and Alzheimer’s Disease related dementias (AD/ADRD), and myasthenia gravis (MG) cohorts.
Roche continues to leverage PicnicHealth datasets as part of its pan-neuroscience patient research study, ‘BrainPower’, to highlight shared challenges and unmet needs faced by patients with neurological diseases, and ultimately improve patient outcomes and care.
PicnicHealth’s newest real-world datasets in AD/ADRD and MG, which include patient- and observer-reported outcomes and electronic health record data, will form some of the most complete datasets to date following the retrospective and prospective journeys of patients with AD/ADRD and MG. While the MG cohort enrollment is closed, the AD/RD cohort is currently open for enrollment for patients in the United States.
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“We’re delighted to continue our long-term partnership with Roche and Genentech as we leverage our expertise in working with patients to develop data while enabling researchers to better understand disease progression and staging and the holistic impact a neurological disease has on a patient and his of her care team,” said Dan Drozd, MD, Chief Medical Officer at PicnicHealth.
“To drive real, tangible change for people with neurological disorders, we see the value of collaborating with experts across industries, and our expanded partnership with PicnicHealth is a key example of this commitment in action. Through our analysis of anonymized, longitudinal patient data, we hope to garner new insights around shared challenges in the patient journey that cut across multiple neurologic diseases.
We look forward to this collaboration continuing to yield valuable research to advance our understanding of the impact of brain health across a variety of neurologic conditions. These insights will help us to develop a more personalized healthcare approach for specific disorders as well as across neurology science broadly,” said Gregory A. Rippon, MD, MS, FAAN, Vice President and Chief Medical Partner of Ophthalmology, Neurology, and Internal Medicine at Genentech, a member of the Roche group.
SOURCE: Businesswire