Financing drug discovery for orphan diseases

Recently proposed ‘megafund’ financing methods for funding translational medicine and drug development require billions of dollars in capital per megafund to de-risk the drug discovery process enough to issue long-term bonds. Here, we demonstrate that the same financing methods can be applied to orp...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Gromatzky, Austin A., Stein, Roger Mark, Fernandez, Jose-Maria, Fagnan, David E., Lo, Andrew W
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Elsevier B.V. 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/90835
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2944-7773