Program Types & Stages

Introduction

In biotech and pharma, every organization structures its scientific programs differently. Differences could be cultural, or based on modality, therapeutic area, team function, or internal stage-gate conventions. Program types in Pluto let you model these differences directly in your workspace, so programs are standardized, classified, and tracked in terms your teams actually use. Once configured, every scientific question, dataset, analysis, and plot created in Pluto can be directly linked back to a program and its current stage, giving scientific leaders a live view of where work is happening and what decisions they are impacting.

Creating program types

Navigate to your organization settings > Program settings and click + New program type.

Give your program type a name (see examples below), configure appearance settings, and define the ordered stages a program can go through:

Organization administrators can edit program type display information and stages any time from the program settings:

Example program types

Therapeutics

• R&D

• Preclinical

• IND-enabling

• Phase I

• Phase II

Drug discovery

• Target discovery

• Target & model characterization

• Mechanism & selectivity profiling

• Translational evidence building

• Phase I / II biomarker science

Model development

• Model design

• Model characterization

• Disease relevance validation

• Perturbation & response profiling

• Approved for program use

Biomarker strategy

• Biomarker discovery

• Biomarker prioritization

• Assay & sample type validation

• Clinical cohort validation

• Regulatory package

Research

• Pre-funding

• Preliminary research

• Active work

• Publication preparation

• Published

These are just ideas to get you started! You're free to define your own program types and stages, or reach out to your dedicated Pluto solutions engineer for advice specific to your own scientific goals.

Learn more about creating and using Programs