Martin Shkreli increased the price of the antiparasitic drug Daraprim (pyrimethamine) by more than 5,000 percent after buying Turing Pharmaceuticals, raising it from $13.50 to $ 750 per tablet. High school students in Australia have produced the same drug for just $2.

A group of 11 16- and 17-year-old high school students from Sydney Grammar School in Australia have shown how exorbitant the pricing of the life-saving drug was by recreating Daraprim in their school lab at a cost of only about $2 per dose.

The students have been attempting to synthesize pyrimethamine as part of an after-school chemistry program ever since the price hike for Darprim was announced last year.

Last edited by Just Fred (12/02/2016 9:55 am)