Believe it or not, about 20 years’ worth of potentially life-saving drugs are sitting in labs right now, untested. Why? Because they can’t get the funding to go to trials; the financial risk is too high.
This TED talk is great. It explains very clearly how drugs and vaccines get to market or ‘from bench to bedside’, in particular the first part of the talk. It’s about cancer, not Crohn’s Disease, but the description of how new drugs get to market is the same. We are so often asked about the vaccine trial and how it will progress. This provides a good answer for all those enquirers.
Just a small note – we do not believe that the Crohn’s MAP Vaccine will fall at the Valley of Death stage (phase 1)! We’d rather aim for the Peak of Health as we believe that this vaccine will get through that bottleneck!