Everyone needs drugs: how to choose a pharmaceutical project for investment

Pharmaceuticals, like any science-intensive field, always needs funding. The budget allocated for research in the field of drug development is usually not enough, so private investment is actively attracted to this industry. At the end of 2021, for example, total investments in the global pharmaceutical industry (including RUSSIA) amounted to about $220 billion.

Let's analyze what nuances to take into account for an investor who is considering the possibility of investing money in a pharmaceutical project.

We will immediately take out the purchase of shares of certain global pharmaceutical companies. This is a rich topic, but it is connected very indirectly with the scientific prospects of projects. Here we consider the general questions that characterize a potentially good future pharmaceutical or biotechnological development.

To begin with, let's list what types of projects are in the pharmaceutical industry.