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Dartmouth College

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  • The idea is that often a drug that was initially discovered for one use or another actually has a second life as a different use.
  • There's a study that suggests that there might be hundreds as many as eight hundred missing treatments of generics.
  • The thing is that that incentive doesn't hold for generic drugs.
  • Once a drug goes off patent, it turns out you can actually get a patent on second uses, but you can't monetize it.
  • The costs of the clinical trials are going to be lower for a generic because it's already been proven safe for the other use.
  • Our goal is like, how can we solve big social problems that seem intractable?