Atlanta Business Chronicle: Emory No. 4 in U.S. for drug, vaccine discovery (Boston: loan)

[cabasse]

Emory No. 4 in U.S. for drug, vaccine discovery | Atlanta Business Chronicle

Atlanta’s Emory University is the fourth-largest contributor in the nation to the discovery of new drugs and vaccines by public-sector research institutions, according to a national study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health and Boston University

safe to assume that proximity to the cdc probably has a major part to do with this, but either way an impressive stat to put in our cap.

i think one way we could help get our economy back on the right foot would be large investments in healthcare - improving and growing our hospitals, building new ones, etc. this seems to be one area we're somewhat lacking in, compared with our peers (esp. those in tx)

[MathmanMathman]

Originally Posted by cabasse

Emory No. 4 in U.S. for drug, vaccine discovery | Atlanta Business Chronicle


safe to assume that proximity to the cdc probably has a major part to do with this, but either way an impressive stat to put in our cap.

i think one way we could help get our economy back on the right foot would be large investments in healthcare - improving and growing our hospitals, building new ones, etc. this seems to be one area we're somewhat lacking in, compared with our peers (esp. those in tx)

I have mixed feelings about healthcare as an industry. To be a real industry it has to produce stuff that the outside (outside of Atlanta) will pay for, thus bringing in money.

And biotech and everything connected to it has promise but there again, I think we are drugging ourselves to death. The Swiss came up with Ritalin and are making a fortune by our willingness to over medicate our kids and its even being pushed on adults.

Drugs have their place but I'm worried about the zeal in which companies want to have them prescribed. Honestly, I think a lot of our health problems are better solved with a little "preventive maintenance" rather than turning to a shot or pill.

[testa50]

Even more interesting than Emory's #4 rank is who beats them:

When it comes to discovering new drugs, Emory is bested only by the National Institutes of Health, the University of California System and Memorial Sloan-Kettering, according to the study, published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine.

So yeah, it's not like Emory is the fourth best University for new drugs. It's the fourth best anything, and the only things that beat it are (1) a government agency whose goal and mission is health research, (2) the university system for America's largest state, and (3) a hugely prestigious cancer research and treatment facility in New York. That's definitely impressive.

[MathmanMathman]

Originally Posted by testa50

Even more interesting than Emory's #4 rank is who beats them:



So yeah, it's not like Emory is the fourth best University for new drugs. It's the fourth best anything, and the only things that beat it are (1) a government agency whose goal and mission is health research, (2) the university system for America's largest state, and (3) a hugely prestigious cancer research and treatment facility in New York. That's definitely impressive.

Like what was posted above, the CDC probably made the difference.

[KimaX]

Originally Posted by testa50

Even more interesting than Emory's #4 rank is who beats them:



So yeah, it's not like Emory is the fourth best University for new drugs. It's the fourth best anything, and the only things that beat it are (1) a government agency whose goal and mission is health research, (2) the university system for America's largest state, and (3) a hugely prestigious cancer research and treatment facility in New York. That's definitely impressive.

I have access to the NEJM article and it states that top contributors to discovery of new products are NIH (22), followed by the UC system (11), Memorial Sloan-Kettering (8), Emory (7), and Yale (6). Emory actually has nine approved products so it should be behind only the NIH and the UC system.