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Contribution of NIH funding to new drug approvals 2010–2016

Overview of attention for article published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, February 2018
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Title
Contribution of NIH funding to new drug approvals 2010–2016
Published in
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, February 2018
DOI 10.1073/pnas.1715368115
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Ekaterina Galkina Cleary, Jennifer M. Beierlein, Navleen Surjit Khanuja, Laura M. McNamee, Fred D. Ledley

Abstract

This work examines the contribution of NIH funding to published research associated with 210 new molecular entities (NMEs) approved by the Food and Drug Administration from 2010-2016. We identified >2 million publications in PubMed related to the 210 NMEs (n= 131,092) or their 151 known biological targets (n= 1,966,281). Of these, >600,000 (29%) were associated with NIH-funded projects in RePORTER. This funding included >200,000 fiscal years of NIH project support (1985-2016) and project costs >$100 billion (2000-2016), representing ∼20% of the NIH budget over this period. NIH funding contributed to every one of the NMEs approved from 2010-2016 and was focused primarily on the drug targets rather than on the NMEs themselves. There were 84 first-in-class products approved in this interval, associated with >$64 billion of NIH-funded projects. The percentage of fiscal years of project funding identified through target searches, but not drug searches, was greater for NMEs discovered through targeted screening than through phenotypic methods (95% versus 82%). For targeted NMEs, funding related to targets preceded funding related to the NMEs, consistent with the expectation that basic research provides validated targets for targeted screening. This analysis, which captures basic research on biological targets as well as applied research on NMEs, suggests that the NIH contribution to research associated with new drug approvals is greater than previously appreciated and highlights the risk of reducing federal funding for basic biomedical research.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 37 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 30 14%
Student > Bachelor 24 11%
Student > Master 17 8%
Other 15 7%
Other 47 21%
Unknown 51 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 28 13%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 22 10%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 18 8%
Social Sciences 14 6%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 10 5%
Other 64 29%
Unknown 65 29%
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