Drug Design Quotes

“Bringing a major drug forward, bringing it out of discovery and into development, then out of development and into the market, bringing it to patients and changing their lives, is ... the hardest thing that humans do,' Boger said. 'Putting a man on the moon? Not ... so ... hard. Engineering is an amazing discipline, but it's also a discipline that succumbs every single solitary time to time and effort. If you give me twenty years and a half trillion dollars, I guarantee I can put people on Mars and bring them back. I guarantee it. Any of you could guarantee it. But making a new drug that changes people's lives is almost beyond human understanding.”
― Barry Werth, The Antidote: Inside the World of New Pharma