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Ex-OpenAI science head @kevinweil warns America risks losing its pharmaceutical capabilities to China the same way it lost manufacturing: "We started by offshoring the low-skilled manufacturing work. Then over time we pushed more and more out of the country, and we lost the muscle." "There’s this amazing quote from Andy Grove: abandoning today’s commodity manufacturing can lock you out of tomorrow’s emerging industry. That is the path that we are on with pharma. It’s not too late to take it…
On #2: Andy Grove once said “abandoning today's 'commodity' manufacturing can lock you out of tomorrow's emerging industry” and nowhere is this more true than in pharma and life sciences. Over the last 20 years we have shifted much of the drug discovery process to large Chinese contract research organizations (CROs) like Wuxi—a company which was added to the DoW’s list of “Chinese military companies” in June. We’ve seen this multiple times now. When the work moves overseas, the expertise and infrastructure follow. We're at risk of losing the ability to turn our ideas into medicines. That’s an unacceptable dependency for something so central to our health and our future.