&gt; No new drugs. Pretty simple.<p>I doubt that. There&#x27;s no reason why the same research couldn&#x27;t be academic research.<p>Global spending on drugs research is only $77 billion a year. Take the 20 richest countries in the world and that&#x27;s less than $4 billion a year each. That&#x27;s less than half the UK&#x27;s EU rebate.<p>(EDIT: not enough coffee to add correctly)