New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them
New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them
the reason she was detained was that she was analyzing images that'd cure cancer. you underestimated big pharma
Somewhere in here is a perfect counter balance to right wing speak.
"A scientist who was about to publish a cancer curd has been arrest by border agents with Trump's authority. Trump received billions big pharm funding."
The trick with the right is it doesn't need to be entity true. It just need to tick ther correct set of emotions.
Realistically speaking, she's most likely somehow sponsored by big pharma (Well considering that it's imaging, it's more the interesection between big tech and big pharma, not sure where to put health division of GE or Siemens) , and cancer treatment/dianostic bring them a lot of money so they like cancer research.
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.
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.
Okay RFK.
Why would the greedy fuccbois at the top of these pharmacy companies want to cure cancer? Aside from the clout theyll make billions more off inflated treatments that may or may not work
Each cancer is almost a disease in itself, due to its own individual nature, for an effective treatment the ideal would be to use personalized medicine, which will always give a lot of money to big pharmaceutical companies, there is no need for them to delay or harm research into cancer treatment.
