SoylentNews

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Médicines Sans Frontières as well as many here overestimate the contribution of universities and research institutes in producing new drugs. Dr. Lowe, a researcher at Vertex, responds to this claim by citing a 2010 review that covered drug approvals from 1998 to 2007. Dr. Lowe finds that approximately 15% (31/215) of FDA approved drugs came from academic sources.

http://www.msfaccess.org/about-us/media-room/press-releases/pfizer-attempts-mislead-public-over-research-and-development-%E2%80%98fac [msfaccess.org]
http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2016/02/02/drugs-purely-from-academia [sciencemag.org]
http://www.nature.com/nrd/journal/v9/n11/abs/nrd3251.html [nature.com]

Original Submission