Minister plans programme to accelerate development of drugs and personalised therapies
The Dutch government has proposed a programme called Future Affordable and Sustainable Therapies, or Fast.
In a letter to parliament last month, health minister Bruno Bruins described Fast as a national platform to coordinate and stimulate all Dutch research on medicine. This would include regenerative medicine, personalised medicine and orphan drugs that do not have enough industrial backing to be produced. Two people, described as “quartermasters”, would be appointed to set the programme up, Bruins said.