Sleep on Clinical Research

Patients are my number one priority, and the reason I do what I do.  My primary motivation to become an MD was to improve the lives of patients afflicted with illness.  I entered medicine to make sick people better, alleviate their suffering, and perhaps even cure their disease.  The more I learnt about the diseases that affect us and what causes them, the more I became interested in finding therapies that truly worked – by targeting treatment for every individual based on a deep understanding of their specific illness/disease.  I also learnt that despite the incredible advances in medicine over the past 50 years, there remains an enormous unmet medical need, with many patients still suffering with diseases and their consequences for which our current therapies do not meaningfully improve their health.  This represents a great opportunity for novel solutions and new medicines that specifically address this need.  This influenced me to enter the world of drug discovery, research and development.  The ability to really make a difference in all patients’ lives, not only one patient at a time, was very compelling to me. As an MD in practice, I could only apply the therapies that were available, while in the discovery and development of new medicines I could be more impactful in changing the landscape of available therapeutic options.  It is only through research and development of new medicines that new groundbreaking treatment can be brought to the many that are stil...
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