While I obviously like the idea of a free HIV vaccine, I’m sceptical that a small startup, however well run, can do better than the entire might of the pharmaceutical industry.
I don’t know enough about the subject matter to be sure, but I would predict there are good reasons why this technique hasn’t been focused on. It would require an implausibly massive level of groupthink for pharma companies and other charities to have overlooked a potential solution for such a prominent (and potentially profitable) disease.
It would require an implausibly massive level of groupthink for pharma companies and other charities to have overlooked a potential solution for such a prominent
If you have 10000 possible solutions and can only test 1000 than you have to make choices about not persuing some avenues.
But I would be surprised if there not also big pharma research looking at AIDS vaccines. In this case the people behind the immunity project seem to have made a patentable finding in 2010. Then they run a successful animal study.
They chose to to the innovative road of being a kickstarter charity and seeking tech money from Microsoft and Y-Combinator.
At this stage some Big Pharma company would probably also buy them and do the trial if they wanted to pursue that road.
While I obviously like the idea of a free HIV vaccine, I’m sceptical that a small startup, however well run, can do better than the entire might of the pharmaceutical industry.
I don’t know enough about the subject matter to be sure, but I would predict there are good reasons why this technique hasn’t been focused on. It would require an implausibly massive level of groupthink for pharma companies and other charities to have overlooked a potential solution for such a prominent (and potentially profitable) disease.
If you have 10000 possible solutions and can only test 1000 than you have to make choices about not persuing some avenues.
But I would be surprised if there not also big pharma research looking at AIDS vaccines. In this case the people behind the immunity project seem to have made a patentable finding in 2010. Then they run a successful animal study. They chose to to the innovative road of being a kickstarter charity and seeking tech money from Microsoft and Y-Combinator.
At this stage some Big Pharma company would probably also buy them and do the trial if they wanted to pursue that road.