Opinion: Invoking Bayh-Dole may be needed to get affordable Covid-19 treatments
It is shameful in 2020 to see some universities sign on to a coalition like Bayh-Dole 40 that actively aims to undermine a safeguard that exists to serve the public…
As the Covid-19 pandemic strains the capacity of the U.S. health care system, attention is being focused on developing new drugs and therapies to fight it.
Pharmaceutical company Moderna, for example, began clinical trials in Seattle for a new vaccine, providing welcome news to many. But what few Americans realize is just how much of their taxpayer dollars went into the development of these drugs long before Covid-19 emerged.
The Defense Research Advanced Projects Agency (DARPA), a part of the Department of Defense, has tens of millions of dollars into Moderna and other biotechnology companies since 2011. The National Institutes of.
