These are the reasons Dr. Tsang stopped doing research but just started treating people.
1. He did not care if he was published
2. He did not care to continue grants for pay when he had a treatment that worked
I am sorry, but being a research scientist I can say those are serious red flags for me. It is only by having your work published in a peer reviewed scientific journal indexed in pubmed that it can be considered legit.
If it is not published, it just did not happen for me. In order for me to invest, I must read the scientific publications where I can check the data to decide if the treatment is promising.
You can see that after years of hard work we published our data from the first in vivo testing in humanized mice for our HIV cell based therapy (
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4931630/) so our investors can check the research and decide to invest of they find it promising.
Are you sure that those billions are spended on such research? I mean, it is a perfect scheme to make money. I'm saying, that I do R&D in this field, take money and than only a part of them is used for this purpose. Another part goes to my account in some offshore country. Then, I can say, that I need more.
This would be a federal crime and you would go to jail. The NIH wants to know in great detail how you spend the grant money, and they want to see the receipts
. And any unused fund must be returned to the government.
Having said that, we are not an University, we are a private biotech company. As such, we invested our own money to fund the research, so it is only by having our HIV therapy reaching the market that we can have a return of investment. The same is true for any pharmaceutical company. So it is in our best interest to actually finish the research, so we can have a ROI.
