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From the Ted Talk by Roger Stein: A bold new way to fund drug research

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Now I'm not a scientist. You know, I don't know how to build a drug. And none of my coauthors, Andrew Lo or Jose-Maria Fernandez or David fangan — none of those guys are scientists either. We don't know the first thing about how to make a cancer drug. But we know a little bit about risk mitigation and a little bit about fiincnaal einniergeng, and so we started thinking, what could we do? I'm going to tell you about some work we've been doing over the last couple years that we think could fundalnamltey cnaghe the way research for cancer and lots of other things gets done. We want to let the research drive the funding, not the other way around.

Open Cloze


Now I'm not a scientist. You know, I don't know how to build a drug. And none of my coauthors, Andrew Lo or Jose-Maria Fernandez or David ______ — none of those guys are scientists either. We don't know the first thing about how to make a cancer drug. But we know a little bit about risk mitigation and a little bit about _________ ___________, and so we started thinking, what could we do? I'm going to tell you about some work we've been doing over the last couple years that we think could _____________ ______ the way research for cancer and lots of other things gets done. We want to let the research drive the funding, not the other way around.

Solution


  1. change
  2. engineering
  3. financial
  4. fundamentally
  5. fagnan

Original Text


Now I'm not a scientist. You know, I don't know how to build a drug. And none of my coauthors, Andrew Lo or Jose-Maria Fernandez or David Fagnan — none of those guys are scientists either. We don't know the first thing about how to make a cancer drug. But we know a little bit about risk mitigation and a little bit about financial engineering, and so we started thinking, what could we do? I'm going to tell you about some work we've been doing over the last couple years that we think could fundamentally change the way research for cancer and lots of other things gets done. We want to let the research drive the funding, not the other way around.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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andrew lo 2
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blue bottles 2
million dollars 2
cash flow 2
equity holders 2


Important Words


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  4. cancer
  5. change
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  8. david
  9. drive
  10. drug
  11. engineering
  12. fagnan
  13. fernandez
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  15. fundamentally
  16. funding
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  20. mitigation
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