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Every approved cancer drug ships with a public combination-readiness data pack

Require that approved cancer drugs come with a standard set of data (blood levels, drug interactions, toxicity profile) so anyone can design a safe combination trial without asking the company.

Combination trial designers need pharmacokinetic profiles, metabolic pathways, QT effects, myelosuppression kinetics and immunogenicity data that sit in confidential regulatory dossiers. A standardised, machine-readable 'combination-readiness' annex published at approval would let academics and other companies design combination studies and predict overlapping toxicity without bilateral negotiation.

Hypothesis
Publication of readiness packs increases the number of investigator-initiated combination trials involving newly approved drugs by at least 30% within three years.
Rationale
Open pharmacology data (as in the FDA labels' clinical pharmacology sections, but structured and complete) removes an information asymmetry that currently forces every combination through the originator.
What would test it
Pilot voluntary packs for ten recently approved oncology drugs and count investigator-initiated combination trials registered within two years compared with matched drugs without packs.
Maturity
speculative
Who has to act
regulator
Cost to try
Small (under $1M)
Years to first evidence
3
Bottlenecks it attacks

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