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BIG PHARMA NEEDS A SCIENCE LESSON

BIG PHARMA NEEDS A SCIENCE LESSON

Time for engineers to muscle in...

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IS SCIENCE AT THE CORE OF THE INDUSTRY?

[Excerpt from Taming The Big Pharma Monster: by Speaking Truth to Power, 28 May 2019]

Science is at the core of the industry, the lion’s roar - and on that front is a two-part lesson.

First, in the commercial world, science is impotent if not partnered with the translational methods in the world of engineering. Together, they travel from a good idea to a product in the hands of end users.

Second, far too little science is applied in the early stage of ‘File It.’

I will explain more because I suspect industry stalwarts will be up in arms at this point. Important though science is in any endeavour, we don’t dwell on the physics or thermodynamics involved in flight, nor the science of the internal combustion engine, nor any other product that ends up on the market.

We know it must have been there, but that’s it.

‘Ah, but the human body is a million times more complex than an aircraft or a car,’ they declare. ‘Medicine is different.’

Yes to the first po…

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