# Metadata Source URL:: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eroom%27s_law Topics:: #biology --- # Eroom's law - Wikipedia ## Highlights > [!quote]+ Updated on 051022_152706 > > Eroom's law is the observation that drug discovery is becoming slower and more expensive over time, despite improvements in technology (such as high-throughput screening, biotechnology, combinatorial chemistry, and computational drug design), a trend first observed in the 1980s. The inflation-adjusted cost of developing a new drug roughly doubles every nine years.[1] In order to highlight the contrast with the exponential advancements of other forms of technology (such as transistors) over time, the name given to the observation is Moore's law spelled backwards.[2] The term was coined by Dr Jack Scannell and colleagues in 2012 in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery