Re: News-Patents issued in Guilford nerve growth studies & casino for pd awareness

[Carole Cassidy <ccassidy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeannette and all:

According to the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), "Only one
out of 5,000 new chemical compoiunds discovered n the laboratory ever makes
it to market as a new drug.  It now takes 12-15 years on average from
discovery of a new compound to approval of the new drug, up from 8.1 years
in the 1960s.  The cost of developing a new drug likewise has risen to an
average of more than $500 million from $54 million in the 1970s."

There are a lot of  variations within these averages, naturally, including
the relative times spent on the various phases of the process:  lab
testing, animal testing, testing on well humans, testing on patients.

Re the Las Vegas and Los Angeles meetings, you can bet that nearly every
basic and/or clinical research facility will be heavily represented:
certainly the Parkinson's Institute will be there in force.



At 09:17 AM 9/4/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Judith and other list family, does a patent being issued mean anything
>re:human trials?  How long does it usually take to get from testing on lab
>animals to testing on humans?  Then how long before approval for human use?
> Just wondering on the time line as this sounds like just what pwp might
>need.
>
>I hope some list members or our neurologists or surgeons are sending
>someone from their facilities to the Las Vegas, NV and LA, CA meetings
>where these nerve growth studies are being examined and hopefully will be
>successfully tested on humans asap.  I'm not sure what the odds were of
>being diagnosed Parkinsonian but I'm hoping not any better than the odds
>are for the cause/cure to be found soon.  Maybe pwp can run a casino for a
>publicity/ awareness weekend somewhere and we can have odds for the games
>linked w/odds for pd diagnosis, odds for # yrs. until pd cure, odds for #$$
>needed for research, odds for #$$$ spent by younger onset pwp until
>cure/cause discovered?  Anyone on list have ideas about this awareness idea
>and where/how it could work?
>
>Jeanette Fuhr 47/10mo.
><lefuhr@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Carole Cassidy
Director of Developmenet and Community Relations
The Parkinson's Institute
1170 Morse Avenue
Sunnyvale, CA  94089
408-542-5628 direct line
408-734-8522 fax