At The Huffington Post, MJFF CEO Katie Hood blogs on her concerns about the potential impact of the economic crisis on drug development as we know it:

"For decades, we all have counted on the private sector to drive progress toward new drugs and treatments for disease. In an era of change, we may need to reconsider a more deliberate role for the public sector in driving discovery into development, and potentially through the first stages of what has been traditionally viewed as 'commercial' development."