Resolution: (A-05)
Introduced by: Emily R. Van Dyke, University of Washington School of Medicine
Subject: University Research, Intellectual Property and Access to Essential Medicines in Resource-Poor Settings
Referred to: Reference Committee, Chair
Whereas, That we are in the midst of a global health crisis in which millions of people around the world, the majority of them living in developing countries, […]

As some of you may or may not know, there was a national
coordinating committee (CC) created at the conference in
San Francisco in March. Since then the CC has been
discussing a number of things amongst ourselves in
addition to the work done over the entire list serve, and
we realized that the general membership should be updated
and […]

We wanted to update the group about a successful event we
had at Berkeley last week.
We held a lunch talk given by Professor of Chemical
Engineering Jay Keasling. He discussed his groundbreaking
patent licensing agreements which aim to make an
anti-malarial drug based on his research accessible for
people in developing countries. He is the recipient of a
generous […]

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