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Kevin Klowden
Kevin Klowden is the Executive Director of MI Finance at the Milken Institute.
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Creating a Nonprofit Marketplace for Shelved Drugs: Lessons from a Pilot Project
Many promising medicines, despite strong safety data and pharmaceutical characteristics, are discon
tinued by drug companies for nonscientific reasons, including strategic, organizational, and financial considerations.
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Hedging Pipeline Risk in Pharma: FDA Swaps and Annuities
The cost of capital to conduct medical R&D is high because investors must be compensated with s
ignificant returns to offset the risky and long drug-development process.
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A Hollywood Exit: What California Must Do to Remain Competitive in Entertainment - and Keep Jobs
California's stronghold on the entertainment industry is loosening as production jobs are lured to
other locations due to production credits and other tax breaks.
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Strategies for Growing Pittsburgh’s Media Cluster
For decades, Pittsburgh has thrived as a regional entertainment media center, and as the setting fo
r popular movies and television shows including Silence of the Lambs, Batman and Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood.
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Nonprofits: A Growing Force in Drug Development
Shepherding a drug from discovery to the market is a complex process that involves many actors.
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Patient-Focused Drug Development Meetings: Smart Practices from Community Leaders
FasterCures, a center of the Milken Institute, designed this guide for patient advocacy organizatio
ns that are interested in hosting, or are currently planning, an externally led patient-focused drug development (PFDD)
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GBM: Giving Smarter
Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM) is an aggressive malignant brain tumor involving glial cells of the b
rain. At the time of this report, nearly 15,000 people were diagnosed with GBM each year in the United States and Europe.
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New Skills at Work: Keeping Los Angeles at the Cutting Edge in an Evolving Industry
For more than a century, people have created filmed entertainment in Hollywood.
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State Technology and Science Index 2016: Sustaining Americas Innovation Economy
As the Great Recession recedes in our rearview mirrors, it is becoming ever more apparent that inno
vative activities are determining an increasing proportion of the long-term economic growth of cities, metropolitan areas, regions, states, and even natio
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Models for Financing Antibiotic Development to Address Antimicrobial Resistance
The Financial Innovations Labs® and FasterCures teams have collaborated on a project to id
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Demographic Reporting and Mix in Clinical Trials
Clinical trial enrollment can vary based on demographics. Cancer drug trials, for example, have bee
n shown to skew disproportionately toward young, White, male participants.
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