Drugmakers and Academia Should Collaborate More, Scientist Says-WSJ Health Blog

Drugmakers and Academia Should Collaborate More, Scientist Says-WSJ Health Blog: "From the podium at the New York Academy of Sciences, Feldmann made the case for closer collaboration between the drug industry and academia, not exactly a fashionable thing to say these days. Science, he said, is meant to be original and novel, while medicine is conservative and needs to be safe. The melding of the two is necessary for medical progress, but the process for doing so is “ill-defined” and “difficult.”"