Megafund versus Megalosaurus: Funding Drug Development
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JANUARY 12, 2014
This new 10-minute TEDMED talk is getting quite a bit of attention: (if embedded video does not work, try the TED site itself.) In it, Roger Stein claims to have created an approach to advancing drugs through clinical trials that will "fundamentally change the way research for cancer and lots of other things gets done". Because the costs of bringing a drug to market are so high, time from discovery to marketing is so long, and the chances of success of any individual drug are so grim, betting on
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