Angry@Arthritis Rolls Out Global Osteoarthritis Clinical Trial Locator

Angry@Arthritis, a nonprofit dedicated to attacking and eliminating osteoarthritis (OA) has announced OA Fix ~Trials in the Mix, a global OA developmental treatment analysis and clinical trial locator.
 
The free, interactive chart shows viable OA treatments in development, joints where the treatments apply, associated procedure, position in the clinical trial process, and geography. The chart is a product of 18 months of research and face-to-face meetings with global research and clinical OA experts.
 
Jason Kim, Ph.D., vice president of OA research at the Arthritis Foundation, told the press, “The OA Fix chart is a great start to the fantastic new resource for the OA community. It provides a regularly-updated and consolidated view of promising OA treatments—which would be an easy way for patients to gain visibility and access clinical trials as well.”
 
Dr. Leigh Callahan, director at the Osteoarthritis Alliance, added, “Currently available medicines and behavioral strategies only help people with OA manage symptoms such as pain and functional limitations. It would be a game changer if we had a disease modifying treatment for OA. Angry@Arthritis and the OA Fix provide a snapshot of upcoming treatments for more than 32 million Americans with OA.”
 
Angry@Arthritis said it timed the release of the OA clinical trial market map alongside launch of the new Federal Government OA Cure moonshot. In May, the Advanced Project Research Agency for Health (ARPA-H) revealed its Novel Innovations for Tissue Regeneration in Osteoarthritis (NITRO) program to cure OA. NITRO funding is speculated at over $1 billion, and the program’s goal is to eliminate OA in five years.
 
Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-VA) said, “ARPA-H NITRO, with its mission to eliminate osteoarthritis within five years, is a testament to the power and necessity of government-funded research and development. As those efforts continue, it’s on all of us to ensure Americans struggling with OA are aware of upcoming and potential treatment options. OA Fix will go a long way toward educating and empowering the OA community.”
 
Steve O’Keeffe, founder Angry@Arthritis, commented, “As a patient with OA in multiple joints, I wanted to know more about the most viable developmental cures on the horizon, which treatments might work for the joints where I have the disease, and further, how I can sign up for clinical trials. I couldn’t find it—respectfully, clinicaltrials.gov is impossible to navigate—so, we decided to create that OA treasure map—the OA Fix.”