The truth is we didn't want to sell to big pharma, they would have shelved likely. Cures don't make profit, treatments do. This is why we wanted to create a company that could put this out to market in less than ten years, get it approved by the FDA as a breakthrough and have it in market in 5 years. Subsidize it to people with need and low income.
These are the reasons we felt being in control of the destiny of it was the safest bet. But so far, it seems that the easy way out is to sell it, which would mean it would not become what we want it to be, a cure to various diseases.
This shows that you don't understand the market well.
"Harvoni, made by Gilead Sciences, has cure rates of between 94 and 99 per cent. It is the successor to Gilead’s Sovaldi, which has accrued more than $7bn in US sales since it became available in the final quarter of 2013.
Early data suggest Harvoni is poised to be even more of a success."
Also, the goal of ALL cancer treatments is to cure the cancer (other than maybe slow growing prostate cancers and cancers where there is no cure available and the best you can do is palliative care).
I've restarted a citizen journalism blog (as I've been a hack freelance writer/editor for 15 years now). If there's anything I can do to help, by all means. I'm actually working on an interview with this gentleman:
And so the synchronicity of this post hit me. If anything, I want you and your team to know that you are not alone in facing resistance from fears of the medical establishment. We build machines with faulty parts to maintain repeat customers (such as in the contrast of light bulbs made a century past that still do their job, compared to current toys that die out after so many weeks, etc). That mentality started with Edward Bernays, and it has infected every industry- particularly healthcare. But there are black sheep out there, I sincerely want to believe there are persons with means willing and able to challenge the status quo.
If you feel your team has something golden, then word needs to spread. This may even be more important than profit margins, as another commenter alluded to, and you need to really weigh such a thing.
These are the reasons we felt being in control of the destiny of it was the safest bet. But so far, it seems that the easy way out is to sell it, which would mean it would not become what we want it to be, a cure to various diseases.