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How We Can Do Better Drug Discovery | Jack Scannell

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The Ugly Contrast in Biomedical R&D

I've always been interested in puzzles and I mean we may talk about this a bit more but there is a really ugly contrast in biomedical R&D. All of the technologies that people think are important have over the last 50 years got hundreds of thousands billions or millions of times cheaper and better than they used to be. But yet the industry productivity declined very steeply from 2000 from 1950 to 2010. So you've got this ugly contrast, how could you have a process where the inputs get so much better and cheaper and faster and the output just gets more and more expensive? It's insane because if we could nudge that in the right direction even a little bit it would have incredible outsized

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