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Gabriel Dickinson

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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The a16z Show
The Shift in Global Drug Development

How does ethics approval work for clinical trials here?

The a16z Show
The Shift in Global Drug Development

I mean, kind of.

The a16z Show
The Shift in Global Drug Development

China is a very sort of abundance-filled country in a lot of ways, like in terms of housing, in terms of development infrastructure.

The a16z Show
The Shift in Global Drug Development

California could use a little bit more Chinese mindset on building high-speed trains, for example.

The a16z Show
The Shift in Global Drug Development

Oh, yeah.

The a16z Show
The Shift in Global Drug Development

So what does this Y-axis measure?

The a16z Show
The Shift in Global Drug Development

Log points?

The a16z Show
The Shift in Global Drug Development

We actually just had the, uh, anti-fraud corporation guy, Alex on MTS earlier.

The a16z Show
The Shift in Global Drug Development

So is this just, they actually learn because, is this just because, uh, we sell a lot of very sort of high dollar amount, expensive drugs?

The a16z Show
The Shift in Global Drug Development

The super AGI pill take on this is just like the way America catches up and gets ahead is we have lots of automated bio researchers who figure all this shit out for us.

The a16z Show
The Shift in Global Drug Development

Within the next.

The a16z Show
The Shift in Global Drug Development

You can automate some things with like simulations.

The a16z Show
The Shift in Global Drug Development

You know, this is what Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is working on.

The a16z Show
The Shift in Global Drug Development

They're trying to figure out computational bio on the cell level and then on the organ level and then on the system level.

The a16z Show
The Shift in Global Drug Development

So, like, they'll be able to do some stuff.

The a16z Show
The Shift in Global Drug Development

Yeah, like, yes, you still need to do clinical trials.

The a16z Show
The Shift in Global Drug Development

Maybe we'll have, like, offshore clinical trial shopping.

The a16z Show
The Shift in Global Drug Development

Maybe, like, you'll be able to send a bunch of people to the Cayman Islands to do your clinical trials or something.

The a16z Show
The Shift in Global Drug Development

Yeah.

The a16z Show
The Shift in Global Drug Development

Or maybe we'll just, you know, politicians will see, oh, we're so far behind China at this point.