The longevity we enjoy today has brought new problems: a rise in chronic conditions such as diabetes, dementia and heart failure, made more complicated by many patients suffering from multiple conditions. At the same time, while the need for new medicines continues to grow unabated, our costly and inefficient drug discovery systems see less than one per cent of efforts reach the market.
These two new research programmes – the Oxford Martin Programme on Deep Medicine and the Oxford Martin Programme on Affordable Medicine – take radical new approaches to these major global challenges.
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