UAEM is a part of a coalition of student groups that today launched a statement on the right to research by improving open access to research. You can read the statement and press release at http://www.righttoresearch.org/.
Student Statement on The Right to Research
Scholarly knowledge is part of the common wealth of humanity.
Unfortunately, not everyone has […]

Download a pdf of the press release
Download the April 16, 2009 UAEM letter to AAU
Read the November 12, 2008 AAU response to our initial letter
Read our original October 15, 2008 letter to AAU
Read AAU’s June 10, 2008 endorsement of the Eshoo-Barton legislation
Read AAU’s May 2, 2008 comment on the legislation
Contact: Eleanor Blume
Phone: (781) 640-7750
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Almost four hundred of UAEM-UC’s supporters, from Japan to Uganda, and Pakistan to Palo Alto, received a letter from University of California President Mark Yudof on March 2, 2009, in response to their letters urging the adoption of a Global Access License policy for the UC’s medical innovations.
President Yudof’s letter, described previous examples of innovative […]

The controversial Protection and Utilization of Public Funded Intellectual Property Bill, set to threaten access to medicines and future innovative research
Berkeley, CA – Despite appeals from Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM), and other public interest groups, the Indian government has refused to modify a secretly drafted legislation that would govern the patenting of the […]