Dr Femida Gwadry-Sridhar
Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Pulse Infoframe

‘Can we successfully run clinical trials without placebos?’
Bio: Femida is a pharmacist, clinical epidemiologist, and methodologist with over 25 years of experience in clinical trials, patient registries, knowledge translation and clinical disease outcomes. It was the challenges she witnessed in academia & research that encouraged her to start Pulse Infoframe with a focus on a collaborative approach to research, building networks of stakeholders from patient groups, sponsors, and researchers to solve the mysteries around drug development. Recently recognized as a fellow of CIHR for her contributions to global research. Femida has published over 200 manuscripts and abstracts and continues to support research to improve the lives of patients.
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Rare disease communities developing data sets that can be used by industry.
Q: How has your work impacted rare disease progress over the last 5 years?
We have developed numerous rare disease patient registries which are developing new treatments
Q: What next? What do you want to see happen or change in the next 5 years that will have the most impact on diagnostics, care or treatment for those affected by rare conditions?
Industry to work closely with PAGs.