Critical Path Institute: Celebrating 20 years

December 26, 2025

By Support Hammersmith

The Critical Path Institute, one of the early success stories of Arizona’s Bioscience Roadmap, is celebrating 20 years of accelerating drug development across the globe.

The Tucson-based organization was founded in 2005 by Raymond Woosley, M.D., Ph.D., with assistance from the University of Arizona, the Food and Drug Administration, Flinn Foundation, and other supporters. 

With a unique, neutral, precompetitive model that unites industry, regulators, academia, patients and patient groups, C-Path has spearheaded groundbreaking initiatives to generate tangible solutions that have accelerated drug development in areas such as infectious disease, rare disease, neurology, and pediatrics, according to the organization.

Last year, C-Path hosted its inaugural Global Impact Conference. The C-Path 2025 Global Impact Conference, which marks the 20th anniversary, will be held Sept. 9-11 in Washington, D.C.