There is substantial debate over the best approach for developing transformative drugs and how this might be supported. To help inform this debate by improving the understanding of the characteristics of transformative drug innovation, the authors surveyed a US-based group of ∼180 expert physicians in 15 medical specialities, who identified the drugs that they considered to be the most transformative in their fields over the past 25 years, as well as key factors affecting their opinions.
- Aaron S. Kesselheim
- Jerry Avorn