It's true that this is the problem, but it's not like people have not been trying to find a way to make the process quicker. It's not recently that we've been a

It's true that this is the problem, but it's not like people have not been trying to find a way to make the process quicker. It's not recently that we've been able to effectively start applying computational techniques to aid in drug development, before that it was mostly wet lab work. Of course that's only going to help address the first stage of the pipeline, eventually you still need to do a bunch of research in to manufacturability of the drugs, clinical trials, etc. Those all take time. Maybe they could be sped up as well but I can't say that's an aspect of it I know much about :)