Comment by SubiculumCode

I attended a recent talk of a leader in bringing drugs to market (not naming names). The current trend in pharma is moving away from R&D to S&D. i.e. Search and Develop. They search for promising molecules developed by startups or by government, then develop that into a final product manufacturing process. Most of the research drug failures are committed by third parties and do not cost big pharma anything...shoukd not contribute to the cost of drugs