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Crowdfunding Patent-Free Cancer Drugs

posted by azrael on Tuesday October 28 2014, @07:56PM   Printer-friendly
from the drug-patents-shouldn't-exist dept.

AnonTechie writes:

Chemist and “semi-recreational” codemonkey Isaac Yonemoto is running a crowdfunding campaign called Project Marilyn to create open sourced, patent-free cancer drugs.

Yonemoto proposes a $75,000 stretch goal to fund an experiment he hopes will prove we can use a compound sequenced from microscopic bug cultures to treat cancer.

It’s a plan that could liberate pharmaceuticals and dramatically lower the cost of anticancer medicine. The global market for these drugs surpassed $1 trillion this year. The average monthly cost of a brand-name cancer drug in the U.S. is about $10,000, according to the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics.

 
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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Joe on Tuesday October 28 2014, @09:50PM

    by Joe (2583) on Tuesday October 28 2014, @09:50PM (#110987)

    Dr. Yonemoto no previous experience in the animal models of disease that is proposed. There is no mention of any details of the animal study or how the results will be analysed besides that it will be contracted-out and cost $35000. Hell, they don't even mention which type of cancer model they would fund first.
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