Drug Discovery Evolved: How Intelligent Search Can Help You Save 79,000 Years

The first notion of modern Pharmaceutical Drug Discovery was over 150 years away when Benjamin Franklin placed those words between two notable calendar days in his famous Almanack, but the principle rings more true today than he could imagine. The drug discovery process has increased in complexity and need for information at an incredible rate, but McKinsey notes that in spite of the growing necessity to leverage all available data, Life Sciences is also one of the slowest industries to adopt the technologies they need to save crucial time and close the information gap.

Every bit of time that Drug Discovery teams spend fruitlessly digging for needed information (which IDC estimates to be between 10-20 hours per week per worker) is delaying safe, effective treatments from reaching the market. The costs are high: money for the company, hours of frustration for their scientists, and most crucially, the potential health of people around the world. In fact, The National Center for Biotechnology Information and The University of Ottowa found that each year that the drug development process is shortened for a life-saving drug can save an average of 79,920 life-years worldwide.