My clients and services

As an independent scientific advisor, I provide professional services and technical support. I work diligently to create solutions that will leave a lasting impact and support rare disease communities.


Ruth-Anne Pai, PhD

In support of the rare disease community:

I offer services to:

Foundations and Nonprofits

Individual rare disease patients and families

Industry partners passionate about patient engagement


My past clients are:

Leaders from rare disease patient organizations, and individual patients.  


I have collaborated with:

Families, clinicians, academic researchers, and members of both industry and regulatory agencies.

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I'm passionate about:

  • Assessing and advising on the research readiness of patient organizations

  • Capturing the research and drug development landscape in your disease area

  • Guiding the development of meaningful and sustainable research programs

  • Planning, establishing, and expanding research infrastructure

  • Providing critical communications, knowledge translation, and patient/community education

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I've provided impact across the following areas:

  • Research prioritization

  • Review of drug development & scientific literature

  • Community engagement

  • Research Infrastructure and program development

  • Knowledge translation

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MY CLIENTS

I offer services to:

Foundations and Nonprofits

Individual rare disease patients and families

Industry partners passionate about patient engagement


Past clients have included:

Leaders from rare disease patient organizations, and individual patients. 


I have collaborated with:

Families, clinicians, academic researchers, and members of both industry and regulatory agencies.

MY SERVICES

Assess and advise on the research readiness of patient organizations:

  • Define the current research capacity 
  • Identify the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and impact of current research programs 
  • Refine research goals and priorities


Capture the research and drug development landscape in your disease area:

  • Perform a literature review
  • Capture the past and current drug development landscape
  • Identify researchers and clinicians (KOLs) active in your disease area


Guide the development of meaningful and sustainable research programs:

  • Define organizational values for research
  • Discuss and plan pathways towards establishing a collaborative research network
  • Support or lead the generation of a research agenda and/or strategic research plan
  • Plan, develop, and/or lead scientific working groups
  • Establish research partnerships
  • Discuss and implement ways to collaborate with academics on scientific publications


Plan, establish, and expand research infrastructure:

  • Scientific/Medical Advisors:
  • Building a SMAC
  • Defining roles
  • Expanding membership
  • Grants Program:
  • Establishing a grants program
  • Developing requests for proposals (RFPs)
  • Proposal review and prioritization
  • Defining measures of success and impact tracking
  • Advising for other research programs:
  • Registries
  • Biorepositories  
  • Natural history studies
  • Patient-reported outcome measures
  • Clinical trial endpoints


Provide critical communications, knowledge translation, and patient/community education

  • Support planning and implementation of research communications
  • Create materials to enable knowledge translation
  • Capture, quantify, and share the impact of programs and projects 

PAST PROJECTS

Research prioritization

  • Merged literature review, community engagement, and strategic planning to identify future research directions


Review of drug development & scientific literature

  • Captured and categorized the depth and breadth of research in various disease areas
  • Identified clinical trial opportunities and summarized past clinical trial results
  • Identified shelved and repurposed drugs in scientific literature and on clinicaltrials.gov
  • Created summary slides of articles and findings


Community engagement

  • Developed and planned virtual meetings with lectures and focus groups
  • Conducted stakeholder interviews to identify needs and gaps
  • Developed research collaborations with KOLs


Infrastructure and program development

  • Supported initiation of multiple research consortia and collaborations
  • Established international collaborative research network
  • Organized grant review process


Knowledge translation

  • Developed educational materials related to research and drug development
  • Created lay summaries of scientific articles
  • Advised patient leaders on experimental models

Interested in my services? I'm here to help!

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