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Article Title

All That is Gold Does Not Glitter in Human Clinical Research: A Law-Policy Proposal to Brighten the Global Gold Standard for Drug Research and Development

Authors

Michael J. Malinowski
Grant G. Gautreaux

Keywords

Drug approval, Standards, Single subject research, Human experimentation in medicine, Self-experimentation in medicine

Abstract

This Article challenges the global science standard for putting new drugs on pharmacy shelves. The primary premise is that the "gold standard" of group experimental design is an antiquated extension of drug development's crude-science past, and is inconsistent with the precision of contemporary genetics-the science that increasingly dominates the drug development pipeline. The Article identifies law-policy options that would raise the standard for human clinical research under the International Conference on Harmonisation of Technical Requirements for Registration of Pharmaceuticals for Human Use.

Recommended Citation

Malinowski, Michael J. and Gautreaux, Grant G. (2012) "All That is Gold Does Not Glitter in Human Clinical Research: A Law-Policy Proposal to Brighten the Global Gold Standard for Drug Research and Development," Cornell International Law Journal: Vol. 45: No. 1, Article 4.
Available at: https://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/cilj/vol45/iss1/4