Spring Intro 2023

03/03/2023

Clinical trials are a critical element of clinical research and are key to advances in medical treatment by demonstrating if medicines are safe and effective in people. They are also very expensive!

Taken from FTLOScience.com

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What’s often lost on people is how incredible it is that we find any human medicines at all. Every human being is 40 trillion cells, working together. I tell our people, you have to think every medicine we find is a miracle that fits in the palm of your hand. We’ve unlocked, in a sense, a billion years of evolution of the eukaryotic cell and human biology and somehow we found something able to move the needle in this incredibly complex system. Vasant Narasimhan CEO, Novartis Clinical trials mean research and investment, and account for investments of over £2.7 billion per year in the UK. Clinical Regulations in the EU are the subject of a later talk for you.

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