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POLICY CANNOT BE BUILT AS AN AFTERTHOUGHT AS A PO
LICY INSIDER who has dealt with the intricacies of life science, I am aware of the challenge of taking a molecule from bench to bedside. It’s an arduous journey that more often than not ends in disappointment. Policy work follows a surprisingly similar trajectory. Years of work for passing a minor legislative change may, in the end, yield little to nothing. 16 | NORDICLIFESCIENCE.ORG TOP STORIES // COLUMN