On: A $650M Donation for Psychiatric Research

[mjt0229]

I really appreciate that the Broad keeps a lot of attention on basic (or at least, pre-clinical) research. That kind of work is critical to making big discoveries but it's harder to defend for funding in a world where we want to put drugs on shelves. I still want to see drugs on shelves, but starting at the clinic isn't the best way to make discoveries that lead to real therapeutics.

[Malarkey73 → mjt0229]

I don't think for psychiatric research we should start with the presumption the end goal is necessarily "drugs on the shelf".

it might or might not be a good goal for some conditions.

[mjt0229 → Malarkey73]

That's fair. I was responding to the critique of the Broad is being not very clinical, and that was a figure of speech.