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Great article by Mary! Thanks, Sasha.Just heard about this response from blogger Mary Schweitzer to the FDA meeting (haven't read it yet):
http://slightlyalive.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/thoughts-on-fda-workshop-april-2013.html
Mary closes, “The larger question, of course - the elephant in the room - has yet to be addressed by anyone in the government: WHERE IS THE SENSE OF URGENCY? What is it going to take to hear that word spoken by someone in a position to actually change things?”
Dr. Klimas gave her opinion during the workshop: “The best way for drug development to leap forward right now, I'm going to be bold and crazy and say right out front, we need philanthropic support....”
It's not that we don't have good ideas and good science to go behind those ideas. What we don't have is your time to waste. If there's something that we could do that would just knock two years off the time clock it would be starting from foundation or philanthropic support to do that work. We have a translational medicine unit and it's the number one funding. Let's get it going. And it's very exciting. And it's definitely what we should be doing right now.