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Folkman, Andrus Professor of Pediatric Surgery, is involved in cancer research at the Boston Children's Hospital that has been heavily publicized since the Monsanto Corporation invested $23 million for the right to patent any product of Folkman's research over the next 12 years. Harvard University and Monsanto negotiated the contract after Folkman sought to use the St. Louis firm's extensive tissue-culture equipment for work on his study of a large protein that, he hypothesizes, allows cancers to grow: Tumor Angiogenesis Factor...
...landmark agreement was one for an astounding $23 million in funds from the Monsanto Company, the St. Louis Mo., corporation that makes various chemical-related products, its most famous one being Astroturf...
Harvard is handling the whole relationship with kid gloves. A new University Committee on patent policy has issued a report that supercedes the Corporation's old patent policy, temporarily suspended so that the Monsanto deal could go through...
Harvard and Monsanto have taken care repeatedly to assure the press that the professors who will work on the project will do so completely independently, pursuing any line of research they want within certain parameters set by Monsanto...
...saying that such government interference threatens academic freedom, but such high-faulting principals don't mean much when the government displays more responsibility for people's rights than a private institution does. It is better that Harvard is beholden to the government under contract than to a large corporation. Monsanto, for example--which does not have a legal pretense to representing the interests of poor people...