Drugs and prescribing

The promise of patient-centered biotechnology

An excerpt from Inside The Orphan Drug Revolution: The Promise of Patient-Centered Biotechnology. Pre-revolutionary stirrings Every revolution rises up against an order in need of reform. For the orphan drug revolution, that order was the pharmaceutical industry of the 1970s.…

An excerpt from Inside The Orphan Drug Revolution: The Promise of Patient-Centered Biotechnology.

Pre-revolutionary stirrings

Every revolution rises up against an order in need of reform. For the orphan drug revolution, that order was the pharmaceutical industry of the 1970s. Most pharma companies had been founded by entrepreneurial chemists or pharmacists decades or even centuries earlier. But as those early firms underwent many mergers and grew into large public companies, more …

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The promise of patient-centered biotechnology