Klausner: GRAIL clinical trials enrolled over 150,000 participants
Dr. Rick Klausner · Dr. Rick Klausner: Curing Cancer, Reprogramming Cells, and the Incredible Biotech Revolution · Joe Lonsdale · Jun 29, 2021 · at 15:18
Dr. Rick Klausner, co-founder of cancer detection company GRAIL and former NCI director, explains the capital intensity of biotech clinical validation.
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“For GRAIL, we had clinical trials that involved over a 150,000 participants, and those are really expensive.”
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