Microbicides/Spermicides:
Opportunities for Industrial Collaboration
Summary of an International Conference

About FHI, About CICCR, Acknowledgements

About CICCR

In 1995, the Consortium for Industrial Collaboration in Contraceptive Research (CICCR) was initiated by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation at the Contraceptive Research and Development (CONRAD) Program to foster the development of new contraceptives in three areas:

• male methods;
• vaginal methods that prevent pregnancy and sexually-transmitted diseases, including the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV); and
• monthly regimens, which could be postcoital, anti-implantation, or menses inducers.

CICCR is now supported by five foundations and the United Nations Population Fund, and awards grants for contraceptive research and development to not-for-profit research institutions working in collaboration with for-profit industrial partners. Collaboration between the not-for-profit and for-profit sectors is central to all fields of pharmaceutical research and development, but it is particularly important in the contraceptive and reproductive health areas because there are only a few companies active in this area.

CICCR/CONRAD
1611 North Kent Street, Suite 806
Arlington, VA 22209 USA

Phone: 703-524-4744
Fax: 703-524-4770
Web site: http://www.conrad.org/

Acknowledgments:

Planning Committee

Laneta Dorflinger
Family Health International

Mahmoud Fathalla
The Rockefeller Foundation

Henry Gabelnick
Consortium for Industrial Collaboration in Contraceptive Research (CICCR)/Contraceptive Research and Development (CONRAD) Program

Michael Harper
Consortium for Industrial Collaboration in Contraceptive Research (CICCR)/Contraceptive Research and Development (CONRAD) Program

Carolyn Makinson
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Susan McMullen
Family Health International

Roberto Rivera
Family Health International

Jeffrey Spieler
U.S. Agency for International Development

Alan Stone
Virucide Steering Committee, U.K. Medical Research Council

Conference Coordinator

Susan McMullen

Conference Administration

Sara Tenorio, Coordinator
Cynthia Clark
Verna Edwards
Bethany Lewis
Karen Waldermo

Organized by:

Family Health International (FHI)
The Consortium for Industrial Collaboration in Contraceptive Research (CICCR)/The Contraceptive Research and Development (CONRAD) Program
The International Working Group on Microbicides (IWGM)

Supported by:

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation

Held:

Durham Marriott Hotel and Convention Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
October 21-23, 1998