Comment by throwaway_yy2Di

For perspective, the average R&D cost per successful drug is somewhere well into the billions:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2012/02/10/the-tru...

Not sure what the idea is here. Going by cold statistics, this will cost orders of magnitude more than they are seeking from crowd funding. And even then, with overwhelming likelihood, it will fail in clinical trials.