Nature Medicine
December 2012, Volume 18 No 12 pp1717-1857
http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/v18/n12/index.html

Opinion
Global health needs to fill the innovation gap – p1735
Trevor Mundel
doi:10.1038/nm1212-1735

In recent years, the pharmaceutical industry has struggled to deliver new therapies, especially for diseases that affect the most vulnerable in developing countries. The global health community can fill this vacuum by catalyzing innovative partnerships across academia, government and the private sector, fostering a more rigorous environment for scientific decision making and creating the tools and infrastructure to conduct effective translational research.