Drug Discovery is Becoming More $$$ — Here's Why, And How We're Fixing IT

Drug discovery is becoming more expensive and producing less results than ever before (Eroom's Law) —why? One of the ballooning costs is clinical trials. Pharma/biotech often outsource their trials to CROs (Contract Research Organizations). But many CROs are incentivised to make trials as bloated and inefficient as possible. That means more money and less results. Our co-founder Meri Beckwith sits down with Dr. Mustafa Sultan, creator of The Big Picture Medicine Podcast, to talk through how we're building the anti-CRO (Lindus Health!) to solve this problem.

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