Backgrounders and Commentaries

Since its inception in 1976, the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development has been recognized for its groundbreaking research and its contributions to the drug development process. The following Backgrounders and Commentaries, provide: an introduction to Tufts CSDD; a better understanding of the drug development and approval process; the costs of developing a new drug and the economics and trends of R&D for follow-on drugs.

• BACKGROUNDER: Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development Committed to Informing the Public Debate on Drug Development
  



• BACKGROUNDER: How New Drugs Move through the Development and Approval Process
  



• BACKGROUNDER: A Methodology for Counting Costs for Pharmaceutical R&D
  



• The economics of follow–on drug research and development: trends in entry rates and the timing of development
  
  
  
• Assessing Claims About the Cost of New Drug Development: A Critique of the Public Citizen and TB Alliance Reports

For additional articles authored by Tufts Center researchers, please view the Tufts CSDD bibliography.