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University Based Drug Discovery


Should Universities engage in drug discovery, as opposed to basic research into the causes of disease? I have often heard it argued that they shouldn’t, in fact I probably said it myself in the years before I found the escape tunnel out of AstraZeneca. i think this is a common view amongst people in the industry, in fact a colleague of mine (an experienced and successful medicinal chemist working in a University) was told by an industry scientist that what he was doing was immoral.