What is pinkarmy.org?
We’re something new in the cancer research world: an open source biotechnology venture that is member-owned and operated and not-for-profit.
We are working to create individualized therapies for breast cancer – also known as “personalized medicine”.
Our mission is to build a new drug development pipeline able to produce effective therapies faster for less money, without compromising safety.
Faster. Better. Cheaper.
As computer power and knowledge about the human genome increases, and better equipment becomes available, research tasks like mapping individual DNA is happening faster and costing less. In fact, many of the R&D costs of doing drug development are falling.
Today, with synthetic biology, the tools once available only to the largest biotechs are available to almost any researcher. That’s why we’re working to get scientists to move beyond cancer research and into drug development.
The universal treatments proposed by traditional pharma companies must go through an FDA approval process that takes many years. Our proposed custom treatments simplify this problem. Their effectiveness only needs to be demonstrated for the one person they’re made for.
We’re out to fundamentally change the way drugs are developed and, in the process, make better drugs. And we’ll share what we learn openly, with everyone.
Pink Army, then, is the first DIY drug company. It‘s a container that allows people interested in tackling cancer to connect and focus their passion, skills, and other resources. It takes cancer — a field that has mushroomed to become a vastly complex global R&D enterprise — and reduces it to an easy-to-understand, manageable task: finding better ways to analyze and treat just one person; ways that can connect experts and resources no matter where they are in the world, ways that are safe, and ways that can scale and become more affordable as they do.
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