The Coalition for Accelerating Standards and Therapies (CFAST) was formed by the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) and the Critical Path Institute (C-Path) "to accelerate clinical research and medical product development by creating and maintaining data standard, tools and methods for conducting research in therapeutic areas that are important to public health." CFAST was officially launched in October 2012. This session will focus on CFAST activities, specifically the development of data standards and the implementation of these standards to accelerate the development and review of new therapies and to enhance the information that can be obtained from streamlining the sharing, aggregation and analysis of clinical research data. CFAST is working with FDA, TransCelerate, the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI), ACRES, other partners and countless volunteers in this endeavor.