Scott Johnson, president and founder of the Myelin Repair Foundation, gave this talk on our grassroots solution to the currently very slow and not agile medical research system. He covered the big problems in the current medical research system, why there are hindrances in the current model, the MRF's solution and our hope for finding more "grassroots" and not "top-down" solutions.

1. We’re On A Mission

2. A Big Problem

3. Billions Are Spent on Medical Research $95 Billion in 2005

4. Lots of Papers Published 709,539 Citations on PubMed in 2007

5. But Too Few New Treatments

6. Here’s Why

7. No Plan

8. No Collaboration

9. NRDO

10. The Valley of Death Basic Science Research Industry Science: Pharma companies

11. Slow and Not Agile

12. Our Solution

13. Take a Clean Sheet of Paper

14. Create An End-to-End Solution

15. Be Clinically Relevant

16. Manage Your Collaborations Between Scientists and Industry Among and Between Scientists

17. Our Results in 5 Years

18. We Shared Our Solution

19. We Need More Solutions

20. What Are Your Solutions?