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Opinion: U.S. taxpayers should stop funding clinical trials of industry-owned drugs

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The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has had a taxpayer-funded drug development program for nearly 70 years, initiated at a time when there was no private investment in oncology drugs.  taxpayers should stop funding clinical trials of industry-owned drugs. At this stage, U.S. Keytruda).

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STAT+: Diagnosed with cancer, a pharmaceutical executive became a patient advocate and changed drug development. It took decades

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“That she took everything she knew about the pharmaceutical industry, having been part of it, and has really built a powerful advocacy for multiple myeloma patients, is remarkable,” said Tony Coles, who was CEO of Onyx Pharmaceuticals, a myeloma-focused biotech, from 2008 to 2014.

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All these factors will support the growth of in-house R&D-driven pharmaceutical companies and bring more innovative drugs to Asian markets.”. In 2001, he joined as a principal scientist in the oncology team in the drug discovery division and associate director at Johnson & Johnson.