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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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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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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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Food and Agriculture in Asia: Investing in Resilience, Health, and Sustainability
As the world reels from multiple crises in rapid succession, the opportunities to set food systems
on a more sustainable and equitable path have never been more favorable, and in turn, the importance of multi-stakeholder convenings cannot be understated
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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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AgriTech in Africa: Why an AgriTech Innovation Competition?
AgriTech, the use of emerging technologies to help farmers become more efficient and profitable, pr
omises to help revitalize and potentially revolutionize agriculture all over the world.
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Shaping Environments to Shape Us: The Case for Longevity Cities
This report presents the case for Longevity Cities to tackle the challenges of global population ag
ing.
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podcast episode
Ep. 34: Upside Down, with Vivek Ramaswamy
“Seeing my own family members in New York go through what they're going through has...not only tur
ned our personal life upside down, but also has turned upside down...the near-term priorities of our company to help do our part in addressing this
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