Message boards : Cafe Rosetta : Who has access to the results ?
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PostaL Send message Joined: 9 Oct 06 Posts: 1 Credit: 11,127 RAC: 0 |
My main... concern? is that big pharmaceutical companies would use all the work done here pro-bono to create medicines that then will sell for huge amounts of moneys to poor people. Am I too paranoid / ignorant ? |
krypton Volunteer moderator Project developer Project scientist Send message Joined: 16 Nov 11 Posts: 108 Credit: 2,164,309 RAC: 0 |
The raw results can only be accessed by folks in the bakerlab, though the key results are made available with the publication of a paper. The University of Washington patents everything that could potentially benefit pharmaceutical companies, before publication. If the companies do decide to use any of the data, they would give money to UW, which would then go back towards research! |
4LG5zSZM7uiF1nVGZVqTRrjkXA6i Send message Joined: 7 Mar 10 Posts: 14 Credit: 111,252,570 RAC: 0 |
To add what Krypton stated. Sure a drug company could try to charge a lot of money, but since University of Washington owns the patents, they would license it to more than one drug company. So you get competition and if they colluded to fix the price, they would be in deep trouble. |
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