YODA PROJECT

As of October 2014, the Yale University Open Data Access (YODA) Project is enabling scientists across the world to gain access to the company's clinical trial data assets. The goal is to balance data availability with an intention to promote strong scientific research and serve the public good. This effort will accelerate the movement of the clinical research enterprise toward more cooperative learning and sharing... The YODA Project seeks to address the problem of unpublished and selectively published clinical trial research. Medtronic was the first company to contract with the YODA Project to allow access to all of its clinical trial data for independent reanalysis, a tremendous step forward in the emerging era of open science... As part of this initiative, the YODA Project first contracted with two independent research groups that were competitively selected to review and meta-analyze all clinical studies of Medtronic's rhBMP-2. The Oregon Evidence-based Practice Center at Oregon..