For Life and Money: How to Make Money by Making Life Longer and Better
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I’ve been thinking about a paradox that genuinely baffles me. Pharmaceutical companies take the biggest financial risks of any industry on the planet — a billion dollars and 12-15 years of work on a single molecule that has maybe a 5% chance of making it through clinical trials — all to cure diseases and extend human life. And yet, as Peter Kolchinsky put it in The Great American Drug Deal, pharma is “one of America’s most hated industries.” We largely took for granted that the public would love us for our treatments and cures. They don’t. This is very frustrating. But this is the nature of…
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