Cuatrecasas Pedro
Department of Pharmacology, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California 92067, USA.
J Clin Invest. 2006 Nov;116(11):2837-42. doi: 10.1172/JCI29999.
Despite striking advances in the biomedical sciences, the flow of new drugs has slowed to a trickle, impairing therapeutic advances as well as the commercial success of drug companies. Reduced productivity in the drug industry is caused mainly by corporate policies that discourage innovation. This is compounded by various consequences of mega-mergers, the obsession for blockbuster drugs, the shift of control of research from scientists to marketers, the need for fast sales growth, and the discontinuation of development compounds for nontechnical reasons. Lessons from the past indicate that these problems can be overcome, and herein, new and improved directions for drug discovery are suggested.
尽管生物医学科学取得了显著进展,但新药的研发速度已放缓至涓涓细流,这不仅阻碍了治疗方面的进步,也影响了制药公司的商业成功。制药行业生产力下降主要是由抑制创新的公司政策导致的。大型合并的各种后果、对重磅炸弹药物的痴迷、研究控制权从科学家向营销人员的转移、对快速销售增长的需求以及因非技术原因停止开发化合物等因素,使情况更加复杂。过去的经验表明,这些问题是可以克服的,本文提出了药物研发新的改进方向。