Pharma 01: Drug Invention and the Pharmaceutical Industry

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit drmanaankarray.substack.comIn this opening episode, we set the stage for the whole series by tracing the life-cycle of a drug: why it is pursued, how it is discovered, how it is tested, and what it takes to make it safely and ethically available to the public. We treat pharmacology as both a science and a social contract—where benefit must be proven, harm anticipated, and uncerta…