• Question: what diseases have you developed drugs for?

    Asked by anon-321068 to Mark on 15 Mar 2022.
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      Mark Ridgill answered on 15 Mar 2022:

      I played a small part in the projects which led to drugs for stopping patients feeling, or being, sick when they took cancer chemotherapy and another for migraine – I stress I only played a minor part!

      Most drug discovery efforts are fruitless but they build up a body of knowledge that might help others – I’ve spent about 5 years looking at treating Stroke and a similar time looking at dementia.

      It can take around 15 years to develop a drug from initial screening to market

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