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Moore's Law, Backwards: Why a New Drug Keeps Getting Harder (To Scale)

Eroom's Law — the cost to develop a new drug has risen ~80× since 1950, the inverse of Moore's Law.

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Data sources & references

01Scannell et al. 2012 — Eroom's Law (Nature Reviews Drug Discovery)
02DiMasi, Grabowski & Hansen 2016 — cost of drug development (J. Health Economics / Tufts CSDD)
03Prasad & Mailankody 2017 — cost per successful drug (JAMA Internal Medicine)
04FDA CDER — new molecular entity approvals
05Our World in Data — FDA approval counts