A Prescription For Healthcare Investing

Funding new drug development is challenging. Trials are expensive, complex, and lengthy, and only a fraction of the therapeutics that go into clinical trials will ever come out the other side approved. Sarah Shores welcomes Dr. Andrew Lo, economist, professor at MIT and co-founder of QLS Advisors, a Quantitative Life Sciences Company working to accelerate the pace of change in biomedicine.

Sources referenced: Stein, R. (2017) Incentivizing Charity: A New Way to Fund Cancer Research; Healthcare Finance: Modern Financial Analysis for Accelerating Biomedical Innovation by Andrew Lo, Shomesh E. Chaudhuri

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