[rsheridan6]

There are lots of pharmaceutical startups.

And, yeah, drug development is high risk. In other news, the sky is still blue.

Type 1 diabetes is still a pretty big market even if you had a one shot cure. There are hundreds of thousands of type 1 diabetics. If they pay a thousand dollars each (a steal at that price), that's hundreds of millions of dollars. For comparison, there are a few thousand people with CML, but that didn't stop Gleevec from being developed for it (it's very expensive).

[dpik]

A steal at a thousand dollars ? I have Type 1 and would consider an actual cure a great deal even if it cost everything I own plus my entire earnings for 10 years.

[yummyfajitas]

You might feel that way, but lots of politicians and commentators would decry that as "evil, greedy drug companies making a profit off sick people".

[rsheridan6]

I'm in the wrong business.

[mattmanser]

Find a cure for old age. Millionaires would give you virtually anything.

[Vivtek]

I think you mean a "maintenance regimen". Cures are for suckers.