# A bold new way to fund drug research

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED@State Street Boston
- Speaker: Roger Stein
- Year: 2013
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Medicine and health, Economics, Business and management
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/roger_stein_a_bold_new_way_to_fund_drug_research)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Believe it or not, about 20 years' worth of potentially life-saving drugs are sitting in labs right now, untested. Why? Because they can't get the funding to go to trials; the financial risk is too high. Roger Stein is a finance guy, and he thinks deeply about mitigating risk. He and some colleagues at MIT came up with a promising new financial model that could move hundreds of drugs into the testing pipeline.

## Lectures

1. [A bold new way to fund drug research](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/roger_stein_a_bold_new_way_to_fund_drug_research/1b7a69f8d0af), 11 min (TED's player)