Martin Shkreli was the “big pharma bro” who outraged the world by hiking the price of an essential drug from $US13.50 ($18) to $US750 a tablet.
Now a handful of year 11 students in Sydney have shown him up, cooking the same drug in their school lab for about $2 a dose.
And they did it without violating any of the patented methods used to synthesize the drug. The downside is well…
But could they sell it on the open market in the US?
“While the drug is out of patent, Turing Pharmaceuticals controls its distribution and sale through a loophole called the ‘closed distribution model’,” said Associate Professor Todd.
“To take the drug to market as a generic, you need to compare it to Turing’s product. If Turing won’t allow the comparisons to take place, you’d need to fund a whole new trial,” he said.
The drug, however, is available in Australia for a reasonable price. Fifty tablets of a 25 milligram dose will cost $12.99.
Still. Grats boys!
A perfect demonstration not just of the power of science and youth creativity, but of the stifling fuckery of big business.
Sydney schoolboys take down the ‘most hated man in the world’
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