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Donald Ingber - Biologically Inspired Engineering - Organs on a Chip!

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Channel: Science, Technology & the Future · 2014 · Science & Technology

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Interview with Dr Donald Ingber - Topics: Organs on a Chip!, Medical Challenges, Moore's Law & Eroom's Law, FDA Funding, Tensegrity, The Wyss Institute: A Glimpse Into the Future. http://wyss.harvard.edu

Look at Eroom's law (spell Moore's law backwards) - "indicates the number of new drugs approved per billion US dollars spent on R&D has halved roughly every nine years since 1950. When you adjust for inflation that is a huge eighty-fold drop!" http://buildingpharmabrands.com/2013/08/16/erooms-law-of-pharma-r-d/
The article mentions the 'Cautious Regulator' problem : the progressive lowering of risk tolerance that raises the bar on safety for new drugs, which makes R&D both costlier and harder. 

"In the end organic as well as anorganic matter is made from the same building blocks. The only difference is how the atoms are arranged." - Donald Ingber
  
"I saw [tensegrity structures] for the first time when I was an undergraduate at Yale in a sculpture class that I just happened to take the same week that I learned to culture cells. And that, as they say, is the beginning of the rest of my life." - Donald Ingber


Thanks to:
The Wyss Institute - B-Roll Images & Video http://wyss.harvard.edu
ICT For Life Sciences - Providing Donald Ingber http://ict4lifesciences.org.au
CfNE at Melbourne University - Interview Venue http://www.cfne.unimelb.edu.au/
The Interview was Filmed & Edited by Adam Ford http://scifuture.org

We are grateful for the support of the ICT for Life Sciences Forum (ict4lifesciences.org.au) for the opportunity to interview Dr Ingber.

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