Aled Edwards is a Canadian structural biologist. He is also the
Director and CEO of the international Structural Genomics Consortium.
Edwards has been a leader in the field of structural biology since the
1990s. His work has led to hundreds of protein structures which are
publicly accessible at the Protein Data Bank.
Edwards has spoken out against the current state of drug discovery
research, highlighting the dearth of new drugs and the increasing cost
of drug development. He is a passionate advocate of open access drug
discovery and proselytize against excessive IP protection, which he
describes as a barrier to progress and a bottleneck in the process of
finding new drugs.
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