Re: corporate welfare from NIH


TC wrote:
> Robert wrote:
> > "TC" <tunderbar@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > news:1123526264.899690.25750@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050808/lam050.html?.v=19
> >
> > NexBio Receives a $6 Million NIH SBIR Grant for the Clinical
> > Development of a Novel Influenza Medicine
> > Monday August 8, 8:30 am ET
> >
> >
> > SAN DIEGO, Aug. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- NexBio, Inc. announced today that the
> > National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), a
> > component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has awarded the
> > company a $6 million Phase II SBIR Grant to further test the company's
> > lead drug candidate, Fludase® (DAS181)*, for the prevention and
> > treatment of influenza. NexBio recently completed a pre-IND
> > (Investigational New Drug Application) meeting with the U.S. Food and
> > Drug Administration (FDA) and will submit an IND to FDA and initiate
> > human trials on Fludase® shortly thereafter.
> > Fludase® represents a First-In-Class approach to fight influenza. The
> > drug candidate works by preventing all types and strains of influenza
> > virus from entering the airway epithelial cells, including avian
> > influenza as well as parainfluenza viruses. It aims at providing
> > broad-spectrum protection, improved clinical efficacy, reduced
> > likelihood of drug resistance, and a cost effective medicine for
> > influenza. Fludase® will not require annual updates as with influenza
> > vaccines, and therefore, it can be stockpiled for both annual influenza
> > epidemics and emergency use for future influenza pandemics.


COMMENT:

Why isn't this thread entitled "US foreign aid to Canada, from NIH?"
After all, this money is being used to develop a blockbuster anti-flu
drug that Canada is certain to buy and use, no?

What, Canada is going to refuse to have anything to do with Fludase,
because it was funded by US taxpayers and corporate welfare? I don't
think so.


> Just because European countries and the US think it is right to spend
> billions to do research on behalf of the food and pharceutical
> industries, to their sole benefit, does not mean it is useful or
> needed.

COMMENT:
If you didn't think it was "useful or needed," you'd be refusing to
avail yourselves of the fruits of it, forever. I don't see that
happenning. Canada might wait till the price comes down, but it will
buy eventually.


>In Canada, we don't subscribe to the idea of providing
> corporate welfare to develop medically questionable and most likely
> dangerous drug treatments.

COMMENT:
No, you subscribe to the policy of letting the US Taxpayer do it, after
which you buy the surviving drug treatments later, at hand-me-down
prices.


>We are more interested in actually providing
> real health care to our people.

COMMENT:
You are more interested in freeloading and other people's garage-sales.



>The research we do is much more
> relevant and has led to many more significant and truly scientific
> findings than all of the billions spent by the US to bolster their food
> and pharma industry with fake "marketing" science.

COMMENT:
Examples needed here. Insulin was 75 years ago, and the
commercialization of it, as with penicillin, was not trivial, and was a
significant peice of scientific work in and of itself, if you know that
story.

>Canadian science, so
> far, has been much more focussed and productive than the american
> "marketing" science, and will continue to be, in spite of the smaller
> amount spent. Quality in science will always trump quantity, especially
> the quantity of garbage science the US is producing.

COMMENT:
Are you really trolling here?


SBH

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