Pharma Failures Actually Advance Medicine

In a recent article in Chemistry World, the respected scientist and blogger, Dr. Derek Lowe, talks about major failures in the drug industry asking “What are the projects that drug companies wish they’d never started?” Certainly, one doesn’t enter pharmaceutical R&D if he or she is seeking immediate gratification or success. Creating new medicines is extremely difficult and only one in 10 experimental medicines that enter human trials actually results in an FDA approval.