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Casdin: 70% of innovative drugs originate from small biotech startups
“Today about 70% of innovative drugs are coming out of small biotechs. They're still largely being commercialized by pharma through either acquisition or through a partnership”
Casdin: Human genome sequencing cost dropped from $3B in 2003 to $500
“The human genome was finished in oh three, cost the government about three billion dollars, and took about 13 years to do.
If you had started in that day, it would have taken you three, four, five years, and cost you 300 plus million.
It was done in a room f…”
Casdin: Moderna created the COVID-19 mRNA prototype in two days
“In 2003, when the SARS outbreak broke, took us seven months to read the genome of the SARS.
And you have to read the genome to create an effective vaccine.
When COVID broke, it took us two days.
That information was digitally sent to Moderna, and it took th…”