THE DRUG DISCOVERY CRISIS

One recent morning I received an e-mail message with the subject line “Sad News.” As I clicked on the message title and the full message popped up, I expected to hear of the passing of a distant colleague, someone whose retirement party I might have attended long ago as a graduate student, or a seni...

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Published in	The Quest for the Cure p. 3
Main Author	BRENT R. STOCKWELL
Format	Book Chapter
Language	English
Published	Columbia University Press 01.06.2011
Subjects	Animals Aquatic invertebrates Atomic physics Atoms Biological sciences Biology Cancer Cell biology Cell nucleus Cellular structures Chromosomes Chronic myeloid leukemia Cytology Diseases Drug discovery Genes Genetics Health and wellness Health outcomes Health sciences Intracellular space Invertebrates Leukemia Medical conditions Medical cures Medical sciences Microphysics Molecular genetics Molecular physics Molecules Myeloid leukemia Neoplasia Organelles Pharmaceutics Physical sciences Physics Sponges Zoology
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DOI	10.7312/stoc15212.7

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Summary:	One recent morning I received an e-mail message with the subject line “Sad News.” As I clicked on the message title and the full message popped up, I expected to hear of the passing of a distant colleague, someone whose retirement party I might have attended long ago as a graduate student, or a senior emeritus faculty member I might have met when I was in college. Instead, I was shocked to learn that my friend Darin had died of cancer at age 36. I soon learned that Darin had been diagnosed with liver cancer some months before. He had
DOI:	10.7312/stoc15212.7