Name: Sean Parker Is Digging up the Entrenched World of Cancer Research
Uploaded: 2016-04-28
Duration: 1 min 33 s
Description: By getting institutes to collaborate

So Cliff. Put this in perspective for me. Sean Parker saying I'm going to cure cancer. You have a line in your story that that's not unnecessarily an un Sean Parker to say, but this is really significant, is it not. I think what you have to do is sub in the word hack for cure. So Sean Parker's going to hack cancer just the way he's hacked the music business. So basically what he has is Slow, bureaucratized siloized, entrenched industry which is medicine and particularly cancer research. And he's saying I can work around. I can make this better. And it's kind of the same playbook that he's been using across other areas. So it's not that much of a jump I don't think. In terms of what has been done and invested in in cancer research, put this in perspective For us is the unique thing here that these institutes will all be talking to each other, these different [ UNKNOWN ] So, it's interesting I mean, we spent hundreds of billions of dollars trying to cure this disease. So, in the scheme of things, the money is not that that huge. 250 million dollars to these six institutes. What makes this so special is this coordinating, this working together and having each of these institutes actually sign the same agreement to surrender control of their intellectual property, control of the clinical trials that they set up To have common systems for sharing molecular data, which is so, so hard. Mm- hm And this is really is unprecedented, I mean that's high [ UNKNOWN ] on his part. [ NOISE ] [ BLANK_AUDIO ]