Literally every new drug approved between 2010 and 2016 came from NIH funding. https://www.pnas.org/content/115/10/2329 https://www.pnas.org/content/115/10/232

Literally every new drug approved between 2010 and 2016 came from NIH funding. https://www.pnas.org/content/115/10/2329 https://www.pnas.org/content/115/10/2329 The biotechnologists I know tell me "patent law is totally screwed up for biomed, but I guess because it works for traditional tech it's near impossible to remove". They're flabbergasted when I tell them tech says the inverse. Everywhere seems to have this idea that this other niche absolutely requires it.