Big Pharma, big hospital, big failure?

Very interesting news:

The nation’s largest cancer center is launching a massive “moonshot” effort against eight specific forms of the disease, similar to the all-out push for space exploration 50 years ago.

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston expects to spend as much as $3 billion on the project over the next 10 years and already has “tens of millions” of dollars in gifts to jump start it now, said its president, Dr. Ronald DePinho.

Are you impressed? Well, I mean $3 billion? Well, I am not. Absolutely not! Look, Big Pharma invests tens of billions with only very modest success (if any!) for latest decades. Sure, Big Pharma simulates the R&D, no doubt about it. But what is about this new initiative? Why “this time” and “these billions” should differ from Big Pharma's attempts? Big doesn't mean efficient and successful...