Source: News-Medical.Net
Innovation is something of a buzz-word in modern medicine and rightly so. In order to deliver the best care and treatment to patients it is crucial that we are open to new ideas and encourage scientific advancement.
Finding new ways to successfully convert novel ideas into day-to-day practice is crucial to improve healthcare. However, all too often our focus on innovation is on new technologies, new scientific methods, or new drugs – it becomes a quest for the ‘next big thing’.
These are unquestionably important for treatments to be developed and reach patients; however, they are not the only form of innovation, and arguably not the form of innovation most needed in modern, cash-strapped healthcare systems.
This article highlights the scope for developing therapeutics with new innovative, alternative approaches. The current trillion dollars pharmaceutical industry is in peril where the current drug development pipeline is slow, inefficient and incapable of being extended to multi-combination drug therapies as well as minimally focused on prevention. The complex modeling of diseases and biological functions has been limited because of the inability to integrate large scale molecular pathways.
Watch this Video to understand how recent advances provide breakthrough technology for doing scalable modeling of complex molecular systems to dramatically accelerate drug discovery and development.