Catharine Young: GLP-1 Drugs and the Importance of Basic Research
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Catharine Young: GLP-1 Drugs and the Importance of Basic Research

Catharine Young, Senior Fellow at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, shared a post on X:

“A reminder that GLP-1 drugs trace back to decades of NIH-supported basic science, especially diabetes/endocrinology research. This is why we fund basic research.”

To which Charles Jiang, Medical Oncologist at UT Southwestern Medical Center, added:

“The hard truth: about 90% of the research is going to be useless, and only 10% will really meaningfully change the future.

The problem is, we don’t know which 10% it is.”

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