> This only means that this research should be done by state funded universities and not left to commercial industries.

As anybody who has worked in academia for long enough can tell you, state-funded universities are very much a "commercial industry" and are in no way exempt from market forces. There are a few extra layers of indirection, which slow them down, but the end result is the same.

That pretty much sums up all large technological shifts. They almost to a T seems to happen when there is a military need for them.

This still requires for some company to produce the drug and get it approved by the FDA.