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Money without collaboration won't bring cures

It's up to stakeholders at every stage of therapeutic development—industry and academic researchers, policymakers, patient foundations and even patients themselves—to embrace the power of collaboration. Only then will we enable translational research and push much-needed treatments to the clinic faster.

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Sherer, T. Money without collaboration won't bring cures. Nat Med 19, 127 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm0213-127

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