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Preserving biotech’s IP rights
AusBiotech has joined BIO, the UK BioIndustry Association, and more than 290 other global biotech company leaders as they unite in their concern of the ongoing risk to international IP protection that is before the World Trade Organization (WTO).
As currently experienced across Australia, accessing COVID-19 vaccines and essential treatments is being hampered by manufacturing abilities and supply chains, rather than due to access to the IP that backs them.
Despite voluntary global agreements and more collaboration and partnerships in biotech than ever before, a misguided understanding of equitable access remains and the proposal to waive IP protection that is before the WTO will not overcome the real barriers.
Quest for Research Freedom Fuels African Biotech Boom
Tired of dancing to the tunes of international funders, and doubtful that long-promised national grants will come, a handful of African biomedical scientists have turned to private investors to bankroll their dreams of autonomy in the lab.
Linda Nordling
Jul 1, 2021
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Returning to his native Ghana after a postdoc in the United Kingdom, Yaw Bediako thought he had his future pretty much mapped out. “I felt everything was leading me to the usual model of academic research full professor before I’m forty-five, with my own research group, a good grant portfolio, and students working for me,” the immunologist says.
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