Healthy Skepticism Library item: 13278

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Publication type: news

Wang SS.
Genetics May Bring New Life to Failed Drugs
The Wall Street Journal 2008 Mar 24
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120631682077958247.html

Abstract:

As pharmaceutical makers find it increasingly difficult to bring new drugs to market, they are turning to genetic tools to seek uses for medicines that failed to make it out of the development pipeline.

The discovery of new links between genes and diseases can help not only to design new treatments, but to salvage drugs that are shelved when they come up short in clinical trials.

The idea is “to take some of these compounds, capitalize on past investments sitting idle, and now selectively accelerate them in the development process,” says Terry Hisey, a pharmaceutical-industry strategist at the consultancy Deloitte …