And Big Pharma isn't interested in funding the research trials because they can't make enormous profits off of the potential cure?

I don't know what will happen or whether DCA will be the next medical breakthrough but I think this is just wrong on so many levels.  For an industry already heavily subsidized by you and I through exorbitant drug prices that  fall heaviest on American consumers, a large dose of federally subsidized drug research and a broken patent system that encourages the production of "me-to" drugs over actual innovation, you'd think that ponying up for an inexpensive cure would at the least be a good PR move, but evidently no.  Mr. Michelakis will hopefully find government funding for his research but don't expect to see commercials for DCA anytime soon.