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Pharma General Ontology

Pistoia Alliance FAIR and interoperability graphic

Period: 2024–present
Role: Pistoia Alliance project contributor and facilitator.

The Pharma General Ontology initiative aims to support shared understanding and interoperability across pharmaceutical R&D through agreed core concepts, identifiers and reusable semantic resources.

The website positioning deliberately avoids presenting Innovation Horizons as a technical ontology-engineering provider. The value proposition is advisory and transformational: helping expert communities align scope, terminology, governance and adoption pathways so that technical assets can become usable shared infrastructure.

Focus areas

  • Shared R&D concept alignment.
  • Cross-company interoperability and identifier alignment.
  • Governance and sustainability of pre-competitive reference resources.
  • Connecting technical work to FAIR implementation and AI-ready data strategies.

PGO is part of a broader pattern: enabling organizations to move from fragmented terminology and local practices toward shared frameworks that support reuse, collaboration and decision-making.