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Founder & CEO, Flagship Pioneering; Co-founder & Chairman, Moderna

My fellow panelists at the Milken Institute Global Conference made excellent points, especially these:  we are in the early era of the "exponential curve" that will accelerate drug discovery with the help of AI, and it is going to take whole new models and innovative approaches to take maximum advantage of the potential. Great write up:

Life science leaders on how to make drug development less expensive, slow, and risky

Life science leaders on how to make drug development less expensive, slow, and risky

https://www.statnews.com

david geliebter

Co-Founder at Embark Healthcare

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All good points, particularly as it relates to de novo discovery, but if we're talking about reducing the time and cost of drug development, repurposing needs to be a part of that discussion. As much as new technologies have brought amazing drugs to market and hold great promise for the future (i.e., CRISPR, mRNA, AI, etc.), the fact is that repurposed drugs play a big role too (unfortunately, because of the issue of defining "repurposed," no reliable stats are available on the percentage of repurposed drug approved versus de novo), and rather than 10% of de novo drugs historically gaining approval, it's 30% for repurposed drugs, plus the clinical development route is shorter and cheaper.

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