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Abhinavayan wishing world health day, with appeal to work together to ensure science truly reaches and improves patient lives

Bridging Science to Patient Needs: Beyond Awareness on World Health Day

In 1948, in the aftermath of a world trying to rebuild itself, the World Health Organization was founded on a simple but powerful idea: health is not a privilege, it is a fundamental human right. A few years later, World Health Day was established to remind the world of that promise. Not as a symbolic observance, but as a global checkpoint. A moment each year to ask a difficult question, are we truly translating knowledge into better health outcomes? In 2026, that question b

Madhavi Mulay

Apr 82 min read

Iceberge of process required to get drug to the market, most is hidden and crucial for successful entry to the market, and most focus only on tip of the iceberg

Surviving the "Valley of Death": A Drug Discovery Horror Story (That Doesn't Have to End Badly)

It’s late. The lab is quiet, except for that one dataset everyone’s staring at. You’ve just seen something real. A molecule that’s hitting hard across cancer cell line models. Clean biology. Strong IC50 values. Even the in vivo data looks promising. For a moment, it feels like this might be it. Fast-forward two years. The program is nowhere. No clear path forward. No partner. No momentum. Just another asset that couldn’t cross the line, buried in the infamous “Valley of Death

Madhavi Mulay

Apr 82 min read