title: The AMPPA network as a successful model for public-private or private-private partnership.
abstract: In 1997, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Ernst Schering Research Foundation (a subsidiary of Schering AG, Germany, on a non-profit basis) mounted a multi-year global collaborative effort, involving a network of top-level research institutions to intensify research on the regulation of the male reproductive system with special emphasis on post-testicular activity, utilizing new approaches in molecular pharmacology (application of molecular pharmacology for post-testicular activity (AMPPA) network). The new venture proved a success as a public-private sector partnership, as a collaborative scientific program, and as an approach to identify new targets applicable and suitable for drug finding for male fertility regulation.
authors.affiliation: Roennigevaegen 21, S-14461 Roenninge, Sweden.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Diczfalusy
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fathalla
authors.forename: U-F
authors.initials: UF
authors.lastname: Habenicht
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Stock
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D004345:Drug Industry; D005582:Foundations; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D017149:Private Sector / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration; D017150:Public Sector / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration; D018456:Reproductive Medicine; D012106:Research; D012109:Research Support as Topic; D000078329:Workforce