The drug agency government a billion dollars will help create and find new medicines to improve health care and mental health. Lately many drug manufacturers have reduced the research because of problems with the search for new drugs and little success. The New York Times reports that usually it costs more than $ 1 billion to create a single drug and put it on the market. In 09, pharmaceutical companies have invested about $ 45 billion only in research - to $ 1 billion the government agency was funded seems barely adequate.
The new agency will be part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and will be called the National Center for the Advancement of Science Translational. It will develop new drugs and possibly to test on animals and humans, but then private industry will market and distribute the drugs.
Dr. Francis Collins, NIH is the directory, said: "None of this is intended to be competitive with the private sector. The hope would be that any project that reaches the salability point would be moved out of the school support online and in the private sector. "
Dr. Collins hopes that the agency will get more funding in the future member but a lot of research and staff NIH doubt its success.
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