Drug Development Slows Despite Rising Spending; AI Alone Won't Fix It

Despite remarkable advances in basic science, drug development keeps slowing: pipeline creation fell 32% while R&D spending rose 45%, and median clinical development cycles stretched from 8.4 to 9.3 years, a bottleneck AI alone cannot solve, notes Ruxandra Teslo.

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