The Long and Winding Road

07/01/20 • 41 min

Making a drug is hard, not to mention expensive. But a male birth control? It’s something nobody has ever done before.

Getting a drug to market is a big lift for a pharmaceutical company who has resources and connections. Male birth control hasn’t had either of those yet. So how are we going to do it? And even more – where are you supposed to start?

Making a drug is hard, not to mention expensive. But a male birth control? It’s something nobody has ever done before.

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The Heavy Lifters

There’s a race to be the first male birth control out there. And the people running the race are all taking a different route.

The human pipeline is just as important as the drug development pipeline. Some people work at a university, some at a startup, and some are even at a hospital – treating men with experimental contraceptives right now.

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He Said

If you build it, will they come? If you make a male birth control, will men use it? What do they care about? What sort of things do they want to see in a contraceptive? Three men who all have their own motivations, ideas, and opinions.