FasterCures' Kristin Schneeman provides an overview of the organization's TRAIN initiative at the Life Raft Group's annual meeting.

1. Kristin Schneeman Program Director September 12, 2008 “ What You Seed Is What You Get” Making Faster Cures the Central Organizing Principle of the Research Enterprise

5. “Entrepreneurs for Cures” What would your business model be if your bottom line were curing a disease?

6. The High Costs of Business as Usual We’re spending a lot on treating disease: $2.1 trillion on healthcare in 2006 – more than $7000 per person We’re not spending much on curing disease: And productivity is falling: Sources: CMS, Research!America

9. Separating what we need to do in science and what we need to do in the culture of science to accelerate curing diseases

10. TRAIN: You Are Not Alone The Redstone Acceleration and Innovation Network Collaborative, mission-driven, results-oriented, and strategic in their use of capital, these groups are motivated solely by moving promising therapies from the laboratory bench to the patient’s bedside as rapidly as possible – even those that do not directly fund therapy development.

16. Instead of following the money, lead the money.