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05-11-2012, 04:45 PM | #1 | |||
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Google’s Brin Makes Strides in Hunt for Parkinson’s Cure
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-0...re-health.html
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05-11-2012, 04:51 PM | #2 | |||
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1.Patients (and their families) are vital drivers of the development of new treatments – see this piece from yesterday, and the references therein. The passion and determined focus of patients and patient advocates is especially important given the significant challenges now faced by the health innovation ecosystem.
2.There’s an urgent need to improve collaboration among stakeholders, especially scientists, to accelerate knowledge turns and drive progress. Facilitating such seamless interaction, and enabling open innovation more generally, represent key aims of the non-profit organization Sage Bionetworks, as discussed here (disclosure: I am a founding advisor of Sage, which was founded in 2009 by Stephen Friend and Eric Schadt). 3.Moving science from the lab to the clinic is exceptionally difficult, and it’s critically important for industry and academic scientists to work together to translate science into therapies. While pharmascolds obsess about the supposed contamination of righteous academic thought by coarse industry considerations (see here for a more realistic take), patient groups, in their focus on delivering new treatments, appreciate the monumental intrinsic challenges of new therapeutic development — and particularly the difficulty of crossing the translational gap — and deeply appreciate the need for the best people from all domains to work together. http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidsha...vation-science
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05-14-2012, 12:00 AM | #3 | |||
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Thanks for the Cliff's Notes! Brin is one of our unsung heroes; we need more people in power directly challenging the status quo.
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