Better Drug Discovery with BRONCH

• Currently costs $1 billion for every new drug which is approved for market.
• Pharmaceutical companies rely heavily on animals (often rodents) to test efficacy and safety of potential drugs.
• Many chemicals which show promise in animal studies fail to work in human trials – these “false starts” increase the cost of drug development.
• We may also miss potentially useful drugs because they fail to work in rodents.
• Tissue engineering is the growth of functional organs from human cells in the laboratory.
• Engineered tissue allows us to test potential drugs in a functional human organ.
• Testing drugs in human organs will increase the efficiency of drug development by ensuring drugs work in the target organ before human clinical trials.
• Engineered human organs will reduce the need for animal testing.