&quot;Biopharma is not IT where a smart kid can compete from his garage.&quot;<p>Well, I am currently producing one early-stage (xenograft) drug candidate <i>literally</i> in my garage, and have made two new molecules based on the structure, also in my garage, about to be submitted to structural characterization (and eventually, in vitro studies and maybe even xenograft)...  But yeah, I do have a PhD in chemistry, and spend 10-20h&#x2F;wk on the project.<p>(also with the caveat that all my studies hit a &quot;brick wall&quot; of can&#x27;t do in the garage when I have to start worrying about GMP).