Fortune March 26, 2020
If, like me, you need a mental break from the COVID-19 pandemic, let’s take an excursion to the future, when we emerge from it. Specifically, let’s think about how the world can build on this moment to develop a more open and effective drug discovery system: a system that will allow us to develop vaccines and treatments not only for future pandemics, but also for the pandemics of heart disease, cancer, and brain and nervous system diseases that already exist.
What has been percolating for a while is that the global drug discovery system is increasingly unsustainable. U.S. consumers see this in significantly escalating prices for common drugs—such as insulin, EpiPens, and Humira—but the problem is much deeper. According...
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