• phdepressed@sh.itjust.works
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    21 hours ago

    Looking at a couple publications from the lab funding appears to be from a couple different foundations but nothing commercial. Pharma barely puts anything into basic R+D unless they’re a startup. Established pharma R+D is largely clinical trials and/or process development. If her work is patented by the university then pharma may pay the university to use her work. University would then give a smaller kickback to the lab/scientists.

    NCI (national cancer institute-part of NIH) was the largest cancer research funder in the US, about 7B worth and even then less than 10% of proposed projects were being funded. The ACS (American cancer society) funds about 100M.

    • thanks AV@lemmy.world
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      21 hours ago

      Thank you for this. I’m not sure how it became common knowledge to assume pharma companies pay for r&d but I’ve seen 10 different people on this app say those exact words and it’s really starting to peeve me off.