The Cure Alliance primary objective is to develop effective strategies for the cure and eventual eradication of disease conditions now afflicting humankind, and to do so in the fastest, most efficient and safest ways possible. The Alliance shall promote its goal by furthering and catalyzing collaborative research and translational clinical work, including but not limited to the development and effective application of initiatives and technology aimed at the elimination of geographical barriers to collaborative scientific and research efforts. Moreover, the Alliance shall promote strategies to alleviate and resolve the challenges imposed by institutional, regulatory, political and philosophical barriers to collaborative translational research efforts towards achievement of the Alliance’s primary objective.