DRUG REPURPOSING
AND REPOSITIONING
WORKSHOP SUMMARY
Sarah H. Beachy, Samuel G. Johnson, Steve Olson, and
Adam C. Berger, Rapporteurs
Roundtable on Translating Genomic-Based
Research for Health
Board on Health Sciences Policy
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This project was supported by contracts between the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Nursing (unnumbered contract); American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (unnumbered contract); American Heart Association (unnumbered contract); American Medical Association (unnumbered contract); American Society of Human Genetics (unnumbered contract); Association for Molecular Pathology (unnumbered contract); Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association (unnumbered contract); College of American Pathologists (unnumbered contract); Department of the Air Force (Contract No. FA7014-0-P-0072); Department of Veterans Affairs (Contract No. VA248-P-1528); Eli Lilly and Company (unnumbered contract); Genetic Alliance (unnumbered contract); Health Resources and Services Administration (Contract No. HHSH250201100119P and Contract No. HHSH25034017T); International Society for Cardiovascular Translational Research (unnumbered contract); Johnson & Johnson (unnumbered contract); the Kaiser Permanente Program Offices Community Benefit II at the East Bay Community Foundation (Contract No. 20121257); Life Technologies (unnumbered contract); National Cancer Institute (Contract No. HHSN263201200074I, TO#5); National Coalition for Health Professional Education in Genetics (unnumbered contract); National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (Contract No. N01-OD-4-2139, TO#275); National Human Genome Research Institute (Contract No. N01-OD-4-2139, TO#264 and Contract No. HHSN263201200074I, TO#5); National Institute of Mental Health (Contract No. N01-OD-4-2139, TO#275 and Contract No. HHSN263201200074I, TO#5); National Institute of Nursing Research (Contract No. HHSN263201200074I, TO#5); National Institute on Aging (Contract No. N01-OD-4-2139, TO#275 and Contract No. HHSN263201200074I, TO#5); National Society of Genetic Counselors (unnumbered contract); Northrop Grumman Health IT (unnumbered contract); Office of Rare Diseases Research (Contract No. N01-OD-4-2139, TO#275); Pfizer Inc. (unnumbered contract); and PhRMA (unnumbered contract). The views presented in this publication do not necessarily reflect the views of the organizations or agencies that provided support for the activity.
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PLANNING COMMITTEE1
AIDAN POWER (Chair), Vice President and Head, PharmaTx Precision Medicine, Pfizer Inc., Groton, CT
CHRISTINE COLVIS, Director, Extramural Therapeutics Discovery, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, Bethesda, MD
ANDREW N. FREEDMAN, Branch Chief, Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Branch, Epidemiology and Genetics Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD
GEOFFREY GINSBURG, Director, Center for Genomic Medicine, Institute for Genomic Sciences and Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC
GABRIELA LAVEZZARI, Assistant Vice President, Scientific Affairs, PhRMA, Washington, DC
THOMAS LEHNER, Director, Office of Genomics Research Coordination, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD
MICHAEL PACANOWSKI, Acting Associate Director for Genomics, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Office of Clinical Pharmacology, Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD
MICHELLE A. PENNY, Senior Director, Translational Medicine Group, Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN
ALLEN D. ROSES, President and Chief Operating Officer, Cabernet, Shiraz and Zinfandel Pharmaceuticals; and Jefferson–Pilot Professor of Neurobiology and Genetics, Professor of Medicine (Neurology); Director, Deane Drug Discovery Institute; Senior Scholar, Fuqua School of Business, R. David Thomas Executive Training Center, Duke University, Durham, NC
SHARON TERRY, President and Chief Executive Officer, Genetic Alliance, Washington, DC
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1Institute of Medicine planning committees are solely responsible for organizing the workshop, identifying topics, and choosing speakers. The responsibility for the published workshop summary rests with the workshop rapporteurs and the institution.
IOM Staff
ADAM C. BERGER, Project Director
TONIA E. DICKERSON, Senior Program Assistant
Fellow
SEAN P. DAVID, James C. Puffer, M.D./American Board of Family Medicine Fellow
ROUNDTABLE ON TRANSLATING GENOMIC-BASED RESEARCH FOR HEALTH1
WYLIE BURKE (Co-Chair until June 2013), Professor and Chair, Department of Bioethics and Humanities, University of Washington, Seattle
GEOFFREY GINSBURG (Co-Chair from June 2013), Director, Center for Genomic Medicine, Institute for Genomic Sciences and Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC
SHARON TERRY (Co-Chair), President and Chief Executive Officer, Genetic Alliance, Washington, DC
NAOMI ARONSON, Executive Director, Technology Evaluation Center, Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, Chicago, IL
EUAN ANGUS ASHLEY, Representative of the American Heart Association; Director, Center for Inherited Cardiovascular Disease, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA
PAUL R. BILLINGS, Chief Medical Officer, Life Technologies, Carlsbad, CA
BRUCE BLUMBERG, Institutional Director of Graduate Medical Education, Northern California Kaiser Permanente, Permanente Medical Group, Oakland, CA
DENISE E. BONDS, Medical Officer, Division of Prevention and Population Sciences, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD
JOANN A. BOUGHMAN, Former Executive Vice President, American Society of Human Genetics, Bethesda, MD
PAMELA BRADLEY, Staff Fellow, Personalized Medicine Staff, Office of In Vitro Diagnostics and Radiological Health, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD
PHILIP J. BROOKS, Health Scientist Administrator, Office of Rare Diseases Research, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
ANN CASHION, Acting Scientific Director, National Institute of Nursing Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
C. THOMAS CASKEY, Professor, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
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1Institute of Medicine forums and roundtables do not issue, review, or approve individual documents. The responsibility for the published workshop summary rests with the workshop rapporteurs and the institution.
SARA COPELAND, Former Acting Chief, Genetic Services Branch, Health Resources and Services Administration, Rockville, MD
ROBERT B. DARNELL, President and Scientific Director, New York Genome Center; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Heilbrunn Cancer Professor and Senior Physician, Head, Laboratory of Molecular Neuro-Oncology, Rockefeller University, New York, NY
MICHAEL J. DOUGHERTY, Director of Education, American Society of Human Genetics, Bethesda, MD
VICTOR DZAU, President and Chief Executive Officer, Duke University Health System; Chancellor for Health Affairs, Duke University, Durham, NC
W. GREGORY FEERO, Contributing Editor, Journal of the American Medical Association, Chicago, IL
ANDREW N. FREEDMAN, Branch Chief, Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Branch, Epidemiology and Genetics Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD
JENNIFER L. HALL, Representative of the International Society for Cardiovascular Translational Research; Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
RICHARD J. HODES, Director, National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, MD
SHARON KARDIA, Professor and Chair of Epidemiology; Director, Public Health Genetics Program; Director, Life Science and Society Program; Codirector, Center for Public Health and Community Genomics, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor
MOHAMED KHAN, Representative of the American Medical Association; Leader of Radiation Oncology, Vancouver Cancer Centre, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, BC, Canada
MUIN KHOURY, Director, National Office of Public Health Genomics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA
GABRIELA LAVEZZARI, Assistant Vice President, Scientific Affairs, PhRMA, Washington, DC
THOMAS LEHNER, Director, Office of Genomics Research Coordination, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD
DEBRA LEONARD, Representative of the College of American Pathologists; Professor and Chair of Pathology at the University of Vermont College of Medicine; Physician Leader of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Fletcher Allen Health Care, University of Vermont College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington
MICHELE A. LLOYD-PURYEAR, Representative of the Office of Rare Diseases Research; Former Senior Medical and Scientific Advisor, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, MD
TERI A. MANOLIO, Director, Division of Genomic Medicine, National Human Genome Research Institute, Rockville, MD
ELIZABETH MANSFIELD, Director of the Personalized Medicine Staff, Office of In Vitro Diagnostics and Radiological Health, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD
KATHRYN MCLAUGHLIN, Program Officer, National Hemophilia Program, Genetic Services Branch, Health Resources and Services Administration, Rockville, MD
KELLY MCVEARRY, Former Senior Scientific Advisor, Health Solutions, Northrop Grumman Information Systems, Rockville, MD
GARRY NEIL, Former Corporate Vice President, Corporate Office of Science and Technology, Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, NJ
ROBERT L. NUSSBAUM, Chief, Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Medicine and Institute of Human Genetics, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine
OLUFUNMILAYO F. OLOPADE, Walter L. Palmer Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine; Director, Center for Clinical Cancer Genetics; Associate Dean for Global Health, University of Chicago, IL
MICHELLE A. PENNY, Senior Director, Translational Medicine Group, Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN
AIDAN POWER, Vice President and Head, PharmaTx Precision Medicine, Pfizer Inc., Groton, CT
VICTORIA M. PRATT, Representative of the Association for Molecular Pathology; Associate Professor of Clinical Medical and Molecular Genetics and Director, Pharmacogenomics Diagnostic Laboratory, Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis
RONALD PRZYGODZKI, Associate Director for Genomic Medicine and Acting Director of Biomedical Laboratory Research and Development, Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, DC
ALLEN D. ROSES, President and Chief Operating Officer, Cabernet, Shiraz and Zinfandel Pharmaceuticals; and Jefferson–Pilot Professor of Neurobiology and Genetics, Professor of Medicine (Neurology); Director, Deane Drug Discovery Institute; Senior Scholar, Fuqua School of Business, R. David Thomas Executive Training Center, Duke University, Durham, NC
KEVIN A. SCHULMAN, Professor of Medicine and Business Administration; Director, Center for Clinical and Genetic Economics; Associate Director, Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC
JOAN A. SCOTT, Chief, Genetic Services Branch, Division of Services for Children with Special Health Needs, Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Rockville, MD
SAM SHEKAR, Chief Medical Officer, Health Information Technology Program, Northrop Grumman Information Systems, McLean, VA
KATHERINE JOHANSEN TABER, Senior Scientist, Genetics and Molecular Medicine, American Medical Association, Chicago, IL
DAVID VEENSTRA, Professor, Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research and Policy Program, Department of Pharmacy, University of Washington, Seattle
MICHAEL S. WATSON, Executive Director, American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics, Bethesda, MD
DANIEL WATTENDORF, Deputy Chief, Medical Innovations, Department of the Air Force; Program Manager, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency/Defense Sciences Office, Arlington, VA
CATHERINE A. WICKLUND, Past President, National Society of Genetic Counselors; Director, Graduate Program in Genetic Counseling; Associate Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
JANET K. WILLIAMS, Representative of the American Academy of Nursing; Professor of Nursing, University of Iowa, College of Nursing, Chair of Behavioral and Social Science, Iowa City
IOM Staff
ADAM C. BERGER, Project Director
SARAH H. BEACHY, Associate Program Officer
TONIA E. DICKERSON, Senior Program Assistant (until January 2014)
MEREDITH HACKMANN, Senior Program Assistant (from January 2014)
Board on Health Sciences Policy Staff
ANDREW M. POPE, Director
DONNA RANDALL, Administrative Assistant
Fellows
SEAN P. DAVID, James C. Puffer, M.D./American Board of Family Medicine Fellow
SAMUEL G. JOHNSON, American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy/American College of Clinical Pharmacy Anniversary Fellow
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Reviewers
This report has been reviewed in draft form by individuals chosen for their diverse perspectives and technical expertise, in accordance with procedures approved by the National Research Council’s Report Review Committee. The purpose of this independent review is to provide candid and critical comments that will assist the institution in making its published report as sound as possible and to ensure that the report meets institutional standards for objectivity, evidence, and responsiveness to the study charge. The review comments and draft manuscript remain confidential to protect the integrity of the process. We wish to thank the following individuals for their review of this report:
Pankaj Agarwal, GlaxoSmithKline
Russ Altman, Stanford University
Don Frail, AstraZeneca
Chris Watkins, UK Medical Research Council
Although the reviewers listed above have provided many constructive comments and suggestions, they did not see the final draft of the report before its release. The review of this report was overseen by Elena Nightingale, The George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences and Georgetown University School of Medicine. Appointed by the Institute of Medicine, she was responsible for making certain that an independent examination of this report was carried out in accordance with institutional procedures and that all review comments were carefully considered. Responsibility for the final content of this report rests entirely with the rapporteurs and the institution.
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Acknowledgments
The support of the sponsors of the Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Translating Genomic-Based Research for Health was crucial to the planning and conduct of the workshop on Drug Repurposing and Repositioning and the development of the workshop summary report. Federal sponsors are the Department of the Air Force; Department of Veterans Affairs; Health Resources and Services Administration; National Cancer Institute; National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; National Human Genome Research Institute; National Institute of Mental Health; National Institute of Nursing Research; National Institute on Aging; and Office of Rare Diseases Research. Nonfederal sponsorship was provided by the American Academy of Nursing; American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics; American Heart Association; American Medical Association; American Society of Human Genetics; Association for Molecular Pathology; Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association; College of American Pathologists; Eli Lilly and Company; Genetic Alliance; International Society for Cardiovascular Translational Research; Johnson & Johnson; the Kaiser Permanente Program Offices Community Benefit II at the East Bay Community Foundation; Life Technologies; National Coalition for Health Professional Education in Genetics; National Society of Genetic Counselors; Northrop Grumman Health IT; Pfizer Inc.; and PhRMA.
The Roundtable wishes to express its gratitude to the expert speakers whose presentations helped outline the challenges and opportunities for genomics-enabled drug repurposing and repositioning. The Roundtable also wishes to thank the members of the planning committee for their work in developing an excellent workshop agenda. The project director
would like to thank the project staff who worked diligently to develop both the workshop and the resulting summary.
Contents
1 INTRODUCTION AND THEMES OF THE WORKSHOP
Potential Opportunities for Drug Discovery
3 ENABLING TOOLS AND TECHNOLOGY
Discovery Using Publicly Available Data
Role of Basic Science for Translation
4 VALUE PROPOSITIONS FOR DRUG REPURPOSING
Repurposing Drugs Currently in Development
Thalidomide: Repurposing a Drug That Was Not Successful for its First Indication
5 POLICY APPROACHES AND LEGAL FRAMEWORK
Overcoming Barriers to Drug Repurposing at NCATS
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ACE | angiotensin-converting enzyme |
ALS | amyotrophic lateral sclerosis |
BMS | Bristol-Myers Squibb |
CF | cystic fibrosis |
CFTR | cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator |
CMS | Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services |
CRO | contract research organization |
DNA | deoxyribonucleic acid |
EMR | electronic medical record |
ENL | erythema nodosum leprosum |
ERK | extracellular-signal-regulated kinase |
FDA | U.S. Food and Drug Administration |
GWAS | genome-wide association study |
HIV | human immunodeficiency virus |
HPBCD | 2-hydroxypropyl-b-cyclodextrin |
ImmPort | Immunology Database and Analysis Portal |
IOM | Institute of Medicine |
IRB | institutional review board |
LINCS | Library of Integrated Network-Based Cellular Signals |
LOD | logarithm of odds |
MODDERN | Modernizing Our Drug and Diagnostic Evaluation and Regulatory Network |
MRC | Medical Research Council |
NCATS | National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences |
NeuroNEXT | Network for Excellence in Neuroscience Clinical Trials |
NIH | National Institutes of Health |
NINDS | National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke |
R&D | research and development |
TGF | transforming growth factor |
TNF | tumor necrosis factor |
TRND | Therapeutics for Rare and Neglected Diseases |
UK | United Kingdom |
U.S. | United States |