This was posted on another thread but if you read it you can see...

This was posted on another thread but if you read it you can see how the government thinks


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"This swim will help us keep this real discovery-based research going, and in the Australian research climate right now, governments are hesitant, or almost aren't, funding discovery research anymore," Dr Dun said.

"They want to take the drugs that have been synthesised and developed already and move them through the clinical trial pipeline. But for DIPG, that just doesn't work. We don't have the drugs made yet that we know will work specifically in the brain stem, that can cross the blood-brain barrier, that can be an oral formulation so kids can take it at home, that shows efficacy in a kid with a brain stem glioma. So we are making drugs and testing them, and it is all hugely expensive."