IDEA Collider

IDEA Collider | Jack Scannell

Episode Summary

Jack is one of the most interesting minds on the subject of decision quality within pharma and the 'decline' in productivity. This interview focuses on Jack's publications and thoughts around the models we use, and how we could improve decision making in early phase.

Episode Notes

Links to the papers we discuss

• Diagnosing the Decline of Pharmaceutical R&D efficiency (2012): https://www.nature.com/articles/nrd3681
• When Quality Beats Quantity: Decision Theory, Drug Discovery, and the Reproducibility Crisis (2016): https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0147215
• Pharmaceutical Evolution: Clinical Selection versus Intelligent Design: https://www.innogen.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2019-08/Innogen-Working-Paper-115.pdf

Jack can be contacted at jack.scannell@btinternet.com

Then the books Jack refers to:

• Robert Gordon: The Rise and Fall of American Growth
• James Le Fanu: The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine
• Dino Buzzati: The Tartar Steppe