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> $100,000/dose I really wish I could see a transparent breakdown of that number. How much of that is the amortized cost of R&D, marketing costs, salaries for
by jrussino 3y ago
> $100,000/dose
I really wish I could see a transparent breakdown of that number. How much of that is the amortized cost of R&D, marketing costs, salaries for the executives and management, etc? How much of it is actual production costs, and what do those look like (raw materials, equipment, labor)? How much of it is profit? What else could be baked into that price?
Does anybody here know of any publicly available reports that detail cost breakdowns for pharmaceuticals like this?
- peteradio 3y agoI think you are probably right that this is some sort of Hollywood style accounting.
- chrisamiller 3y agoThat's not far off from the rates for producing custom order medical-grade peptides and/or mRNA vaccines, coupled with the expertise needed to design, administer, and monitor them. It's certainly not a case where they produce it for 100 dollars and sell it for 100k. The market for this stuff is beginning to develop, and I hope that we'll see new innovative companies begin to produce them more cheaply.
- epgui 3y agoThis is absolutely not surprising. When I was doing my MSc, I'd often use up about 5000$ just in single-use plastic consumables in a day. There were zero profit incentives related to my project, it was pure fundamental research. Wet labs are insanely expensive to run.