RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Building a Better Tomorrow, Every Day
Our innovation and expertise in rare disease are driven by a sense of urgency and a relentless quest for answers because lives are at stake. Through research and development we’re building a better tomorrow, every day.
Leading in Rare Disease R&D
For 30 years, Alexion’s pioneering science has led to the development of transformational medicines for rare diseases, and we continue to lead the way today. Our success is tied to listening, understanding, and responding to the communities we serve.
Rare disease research and development (R&D) presents unique challenges that require continuous innovation to deliver meaningful medicines for patients. Driven by our patient-centric approach, we pave the way by tailoring elements of the R&D process and developing new tools and methods to gain a deeper understanding of many rare conditions and the needs of the people living with them.
Our R&D innovations are fueled by our unmatched rare disease expertise, unyielding perseverance, and focus on helping more patients and their families around the world.
Leading in Rare Disease R&D: Tenacity & Grit
Leading in Rare Disease R&D: Tenacity & Grit
Rare disease science is inherently complex and failure is often part of the process. Every day, our R&D colleagues are driven by a fierce sense of tenacity, grit and curiosity because people living with rare diseases are counting on us.
LEADING IN RARE DISEASE COLLABORATION
Leading in Rare Disease Collaboration
Developing medicines takes a village, especially in rare disease. Learn why collaboration with the community, including patients, advocacy groups, physicians, site investigators, health authorities, and more, is critical to our success.
LEADING IN PATIENT CENTRICITY: WHY IT MATTERS
Leading in Patient Centricity: Why it Matters
To deliver medicines that truly meet the needs of rare disease patients, we must listen, learn and incorporate their insights into our research and development. Watch to hear why the patient voice is essential for innovation.
LEADING IN RARE NEUROLOGICAL DISEASE RESEARCH
Leading in Rare Neurological Disease Research
Alexion approaches research for rare neurological diseases with unique expertise in complement system biology combined with a deep understanding of the patient experience. Watch to learn more.
PATIENT CENTRICITY IN ACTION
Patient Centricity in Action
Learn how we put patient centricity into action every day through our people, innovative processes, and metrics that keep people living with rare diseases at the heart of our work and hold us accountable to those who matter most.
LEADING IN RARE REGULATORY PATHWAYS
Leading in Rare Regulatory Pathways
Navigating regulatory pathways in rare disease can be challenging as we often need to build our own road map. Learn about how we collaborate and pioneer creative solutions to bring rare disease medicines to patients.
LEADING IN RARE DISEASE CLINICAL TRIALS
Leading in Rare Disease Clinical Trials
Designing and executing clinical trials in rare diseases is different than in more common diseases. Discover how Alexion’s patient-centric approach helps ensure our clinical trials generate meaningful results and meet unique patient needs.
Leading in Continued Innovation
Leading in Continued Innovation
We are proud of what we have accomplished together with the rare disease community over the past three decades, but we see today as just the beginning. As we look to the future, we will continue to lead the way through innovation.
Our Pioneering Science
Discover how our scientists’ bold translational research in complement biology led to transformational medicines for rare diseases and how we’re applying our expertise beyond complement to deliver innovations for more patients and their families.
Innovation Is in Our Pipeline
We continue to deepen our understanding of rare disease, building on our trailblazing science in complement inhibition and more than 3 decades of expertise in the space to help even more patients.
Our development efforts focus on the core therapeutic areas of hematology, nephrology, neurology, metabolics, and cardiology.
Today, we continue to expand into new complement indications, explore new targets beyond complement, and strengthen our clinical-stage pipeline through internal and external development opportunities in our core areas.
Shortening the Rare Disease Diagnostic Odyssey
One of the most significant challenges facing the rare disease community is the length of time it can take for a patient to receive an accurate diagnosis of their disease. As part of Alexion’s unwavering commitment to supporting people living with rare diseases and their families, we are focused on helping patients get answers faster. In partnership with scientific and patient communities and government agencies, we are working to identify diagnostic barriers and develop solutions to improve disease management, including pursuing science-driven opportunities with the greatest potential to improve and shorten the rare disease diagnostic journey.
Join the Effort
Clinical trials are a critical part of our efforts to develop innovative new medicines for patients with severe and devastating rare diseases. We have ongoing and actively recruiting clinical trials in a wide range of therapeutic areas.
Clinical Data Transparency and Data Disclosure
Alexion is indebted to patients and their families for their participation in clinical studies that help to advance treatments. As an organization, we are committed to voluntary sharing of Alexion-sponsored clinical trial data to address unmet medical/clinical needs.
Clinical study participant-level data will be shared publicly only if participant privacy is assured through methods like data de-identification, pseudonymization, or anonymization (as required by applicable law), and if such disclosure was included in the relevant study informed consent form or similar documentation.
Qualified academic investigators may request participant-level clinical data and supporting documents (statistical analysis plan and protocol) pertaining to Alexion-sponsored studies. Further details regarding data availability and instructions for requesting information are available in our Clinical Trials Disclosure and Transparency Policy. If you would like additional information, please click the link below and fill out our medical information inquiry form.
Our Externally Sponsored Research
Alexion is committed to collaborating with researchers on innovative projects that advance medical and scientific knowledge about our products, product candidates and therapeutic areas of interest. Alexion’s Externally Sponsored Research includes Investigator Sponsored Research and Externally Sponsored Collaborations.
Our Discovery Partnerships
Alexion encourages communication of innovative ideas in rare diseases. Applications for support or collaboration for basic research are accepted from individuals or groups, as either concepts or protocols.
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