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...envision a world in which global access to new medicines is determined more by human need than by economic imperative. No potentially life-saving technology invented at Harvard should go undeveloped or remain inaccessible for want of creative thinking on our part. As a recipient of government funding for research, Harvard is committed to fulfill its responsibility of public service to advance our mission by means of a vigorous and effective technology transfer program. In heading this program at Harvard’s Office of Technology Development, I have seen OTD become a leader in crafting and, more important, implementing...
...with colleagues at several of Harvard’s peer institutions of higher education. It is an exhortation directed at the critical role that universities must play in serving the world’s most vulnerable populations. OTD also helped to develop a master agreement amongst all Massachusetts research institutions relating to the management of jointly owned intellectual property (IP) that contains specific language requiring its stewards to carefully consider its patenting and licensing strategy in order to enhance the availability of new medicines in the developing world...
...must retain the right to grant licenses directly to NGOs and not-for-profit organizations to practice Harvard’s patent rights to develop and manufacture products for humanitarian distribution in developing countries. Contrary to what was stated in the editorial on Mar. 1, the reservation of academic research rights is a non-negotiable term of every exclusive license granted by Harvard...
...Another example of Harvard’s commitment to global health is the Technology Development Accelerator Fund. Launched in 2006, the TDAF provides (on a competitive basis) dedicated research support to Harvard faculty in order to perform key experiments that enable early stage inventions to achieve “proof-of-concept,” thereby increasing the probability that they can be licensed to industry for commercial development. To date, the TDAF has awarded close to $3 million to support applied research being performed by Harvard scientists...
...conceptual framework. It has spearheaded the implementation of innovative practices and agreements that serve the public interest and aims to ensure that even the world’s poorest and most disadvantaged will receive a tangible benefit from new inventions and discoveries arising from Harvard’s research enterprise—a fact of which I am, and the greater Harvard community should be, justifiably proud...