Kirkstall CEO backs call for Safer Medicines – Letter in Lancet
In a recent letter to the Lancet, the leading UK medical journal, several prominent scientists have called for more research into new ways of testing the safety and efficacy of drugs. One of the signatories was Kirkstall’s CEO, Dr J Malcolm Wilkinson. New methods could also help reduce the dependence on animal testing which, in addition to the ethical arguments against it, has produced misleading results in many cases and could be leading to unnecessary attrition in the drug development pipeline.
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(11)61669-3/fulltext