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Pharmaceuticals are one of modern medicine’s tools to prevent and treat acute and chronic diseases – everything from treating cancer to lowering plasma lipids for the prevention of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD). Yet the process of drug discovery and development is long and expensive, and the vast majority of drugs that enter this pipeline will ultimately fail to reach the point of FDA approval. The expense and high failure rate can contribute to the high price tags on many medications that do end up on the market (as…