Scientific American Cited Fred Ledley’s INET-Funded Research on NIH Funding of Pharmaceuticals

“Recent data suggest this is likely to prove correct. For example, according to a 2023 JAMA Health Forum paper, of the 356 drugs that gained Food and Drug Administration approval between 2010 and 2019, more than 84 percent received research funding from the NIH before approval. This research was powered by early-career workers: billions of dollars in NIH funding supported graduate students, postdocs and research staff who conducted the work. Under the current budget cuts, however, “all of this is at risk,” says Fred Ledley, a co-author of the 2023 paper and a professor of natural and applied sciences at Bentley University.”