World leading researcher says "The Genes-are-Destiny model is broken."

It's much more complicated than that, but pharma doesn't appear to care...

Medicines in the 21st Century

I won’t waste time writing a preamble to this contribution to a conference I hosted in Cardiff, on 8 July, 2019. The conference was titled MEDICINES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY: SAFE, BETTER, CHEAPER.

Appendix C in the summary white paper following the conference, was written by Dr Ray Perkins, and you can see him in the headline video:

Video: MEDICINES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY: SAFE, BETTER, CHEAPER.

So, without further ado, over to you Ray.

“Here at the end of the second decade of the 21st century, the word “broken” best describes our ability to diagnose and treat disease. Our ability to select therapies that work is broken. Our ability to diagnose, even define, disease is broken. Our ability to perform research that is reproducible is broken. Our fundamental hypothesis of biology is broken. The list goes on. This is certainly a depressing and, to many, surprising state of affairs. Commercial and non-commercial media outlets are crowded with excited faces assuring us …