Assignment Eight:

This project takes the Food and Drug Administration’s drug approval and research process and makes the timeline and cost-analysis more easily digestible for a lay audience.

 

Not many people know that five thousand chemicals are subjected to over 120 million dollars’ worth of preclinical testing, but that only five of those chemicals get approved for experimental and human testing. Not many people know the excruciating process that scientists and pharmaceutical companies go through, losing millions of dollars and many years of research for every drug they risk testing, which makes it hard to understand why drug companies are so corrupt and greedy.

 

Here, I break down the drug testing and approval process using the quantitative averages for the cost, timeline, and participant data. Instead of a convoluted graph or table, I have created an interactive board game, modeled by the famous Monopoly game, something the mass public knows and loves.

 

By bridging this gap between what my public audience is comfortable with, and what they do not even realize that they do not know, I create a better way for the two worlds to relate to each other.

 

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