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Drug repurposing programmes get lift off

What will schemes designed to get industry's discarded drug candidates into the hands of academic researchers deliver?

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Figure 1: Breakdown of the US National Institute of Health's repurposing assets by therapeutic area.
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Mullard, A. Drug repurposing programmes get lift off. Nat Rev Drug Discov 11, 505–506 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrd3776

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