Life After Eroom’s Law

> Eroom’s law is the observation that the cost of developing a new drug roughly doubled every nine years from 1950 through 2010. All in all, it shows a roughly 80-fold decline in the productivity of drug R&D.

Re: Life After Eroom’s Law

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Post by cinntaile » Mon, Dec 28, 2020, 2:26 PM UTC

refoundable wrote: post #3

forgotmypw wrote: post #2

Does anyone else see a blue background on this page?

No idea what's causing this for you. Can you say a bit more about your setup?

Just wanted to say that I enjoyed reading the article. I liked the overall quality and that important bits have citations. I hadn't heard of your website before but I'll be sure to read more of your work in the future.

Re: Life After Eroom’s Law

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Post by refoundable » Mon, Dec 28, 2020, 2:30 PM UTC

Author here.

I interviewed Jack Scannell on the hypothesis that the man who wrote the now famous paper on Eroom's law would likely have many more insights to offer that didn't necessarily make it into print.

One of the oddest things about biotech and pharma is that cures trail improvement in technology by at least a couple of decades. That's terrible news if you're a patient/consumer though maybe great news if you're a lab technician.

Re: Life After Eroom’s Law

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Post by refoundable » Mon, Dec 28, 2020, 2:40 PM UTC

cinntaile wrote: post #7

refoundable wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No idea what's causing this for you. Can you say a bit more about your setup?

Just wanted to say that I enjoyed reading the article. I liked the overall quality and that important bits have citations. I hadn't heard of your website before but I'll be sure to read more of your work in the future.

Thank you. It takes a fair bit of time to put something like this together, so I appreciate your kind words.

Re: Life After Eroom’s Law

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Dec 28, 2020, 2:45 PM UTC

refoundable wrote: post #6

m463 wrote: post #5

"Eroom's law is the observation that drug discovery is becoming slower and more expensive over time"...

A more accurate definition pulled from the introduction: > Eroom’s law is the observation that the cost of developing a new drug roughly doubled every nine years from 1950 through 2010. All in all, it shows a roughly 80-fold decline in the productivity of drug R&D.

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