Where is the money supposed to come from for this? Keeping basic research labs afloat in the current funding environment is hard enough -- clinical trials etc a

Where is the money supposed to come from for this? Keeping basic research labs afloat in the current funding environment is hard enough -- clinical trials etc are orders of magnitude more expensive, and not practical for most academics, even those interested in translational research. For better or worse, our current model is for academics to do basic and early-stage translational research (mostly animal models), then sell/spin off to companies to do the actual trials and reap the profits. I don't see what academics are supposed to do about this.