Ack, all I need is SOME kind of vaguely realistic figure to give for the cost of a pharmacological study. I’ve been working nonstop, I made a VIDEO for this stupid class project, and I STILL need to write a project proposal. All I need is a number that isn’t completely nuts, and I honestly don’t know what that would be. If Eli Lilly, for example, funds a study on Zyban, what is the total amount it costs them? Just SOME kind of number, PLEASE!!!
As a general rule, we don’t do homework. We have been known to lend a helping hand to show you how to find an answer, or the reasoning behind something.
Have you tried Googling this to find such a number? Or are you desparate because you didn’t start soon enough?
I’ll volunteer an approach you can take. Look on the NIH or NSF website and they will most likely have dollar amounts of grants they have made for various things, some of which may be pharmaceutical studies. Alternatively, you may be able to research the grants received by a university to see the amounts from private pharmaceutical companies.
I don’t why asking on a messageboard isn’t valid research. My wife happens to work at a major medical research facility, and she deals with these numbers everyday. Why is it more noble to root around on Google than ask someone who is in the business?
To be honest, you do not need “some vaguely realistic figure”, for your project. You need to have done solid research for that project to make it pass with your professors. You view it as a “stupid class project”, and want the work done for you.
Why do you think we should do your work, really??
Your “stupid project” is intended for you to be able to research, complete, and discern data and incorporate it into your field of study. If you are in the field of pharmaceuticals, please note that your data is very important to the health of many other people. It’s not “vaguely realistic” when it comes to people who are dealing with life-threating disease.
Hundreds of millions of dollars is a reasonable figure for a big drug, and some studies claim the average cost (including marketing, adevertising, cost of failed drugs, salaries, legal fees, etc.) is $1.7 billion per big drug produced. This also includes research money, goverment help and subsidies, etc. so it is hard to say if this is accurate. Drug companies are like Hollywood studios with every reason to inflate the cost of bringing a drug to market given competition from generic companies. Try looking up pharmaceutical on wikipedia.
Yes, I’ve Googled it, but I’ve also spent about one hundred hours making a video only to be informed that a paper is still necessary-- information that could not be imparted before, apparently. Nobody is going to use anything from said paper in any way, nor is it going to affect anyone’s life, health, state of mind, etc. Frankly, 90% of what I see on these message boards consists of people asking for advice, opinions, etc. Since I have spent massive amounts of time on this already, asking for opinions on ONE figure-- which nobody is obligated to give-- is not having “homework done for you.” I could say a lot more, but I won’t. I’m tired of this kind of online communication. If I’m about to type something that I would never say in a face to face conversation, and if I know that I’m about to take advantage of the comfy distance of digital space in order to take a luxurious dive into nastiness, rudeness,and cutting comments, I don’t continue. I made that decision long ago, and the web would be a much better place if everyone else did the same. Mods, please erase this thread.
Richard C. Cook M.D., Kurt T. Alscher M.D., and York N. Hsiang M.D., 2003; “A debate on the value and necessity of clinical trials in surgery.”, The American Journal of Surgery 185:4
I gave you your figure and a good reference. You’re welcome.
A bit sensitive, are we?