Enhancing Quality In Preclinical Data

EQIPD offers simple and sustainable solutions that facilitate improvements in data quality without impacting innovation and freedom of research, developed by scientists in academia and industry

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EQIPD is a fit for every member of the research community

Pharma industry

… invests into the most expensive phases of drug R&D.
Clinical studies based on preclinical evidence lacking robustness are likely to fail.
EQIPD provides solutions to improve data integrity.

Private and public funders

… support a great number of projects guided by their scientific excellence.
Research quality assessment is a filter that can be applied to focus investments on most robust and therefore more likely to translate research.

Research organizations

… increasingly depend on successful collaborations and sustainability of research output.
EQIPD offers several possibilities to review, implement and maintain best research practices.

Scientific Excellence vs. Research Quality

Scientific excellence is the key to advance science but it does not guarantee that the conducted experiments deliver robust results. There are two primary reasons for that. First, education in science does not always focus on the requirements for delivering of robust data. Second, excitement associated with a scientific hypothesis or conveyed by a scientific leader may introduce bias in study design, conduct, analysis and/or reporting.

Regulated vs. Non-regulated

In the drug discovery and development process, there are several steps that have adequate quality control and are covered by GxP policies (e.g. Good Laboratory Practice, GLP).For non-regulated areas (most specifically, biology and pharmacology of drug discovery projects), GLP-like procedures would not be fit for purpose and may not help to secure the quality of research. In fact, one may indeed imagine a lab running under GLP conditions but nevertheless still failing to design and execute robust studies.

Good Research Practice vs. Research Integrity

Responsible conduct of research has multiple facets and the examples of suboptimal or unacceptable practices go well beyond the commonly known definition of research misconduct (fabrication, falisfication or plagiarism).In addition to such direct violations of the good research practices, examples of other unacceptable practices include manipulating authorship, withholding research results, reporting of results so as to introduce or promulgate bias, failing to document essential steps or results of the research process.

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Events

EQIPD Webinar Series 2023

ByKim Wever January 11, 2023January 11, 2023

The Guarantors of EQIPD will provide an open Webinar series in 2023 with different topics around best practices and the EQIPD Quality System.

News

GoEQIPD receives support by CVB

ByBjörn Gerlach December 19, 2022December 30, 2022

The Guarantors of EQIPD Society is honored to receive a Sponsorship grant from Cohen Veterans Bioscience, a U.S.-based 501c3 public charity to support our critical work in driving quality and reproducibility of research. CVB has supported the EQIPD Consortium from its inception and is also a Founding Member of the Society. This funding will support…