Progress in Drug Discovery in Academia and Persistent Challenges of “the Valley of Death”

At its core, Mayo Clinic works as a team. Teamwork to enhance patient care was championed by the Mayo brothers from the outset. With the astounding advances in the biomedical sciences, the concepts of teamwork are of even greater importance as we have entered a new era of team science in research.1-3 Anderson and his colleagues4 from Mayo Clinic provide a clear outline of new components of the team science enterprise as it relates to drug and device development. The early infrastructure for various components in this new discovery pipeline stems from the clinical translational science award that Mayo Clinic successfully competed for in 2006.
Source: Mayo Clinic Proceedings - Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Tags: Editorial Source Type: research