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Especially if the vaccine turns out to be storable at normal temperatures in extensive real-world use, Edwards’ spray could have a much wider reach with a dramatically smaller price tag.
The financial spark for Edwards’ vaccine spray comes from a $7.6 million grant from a charity whose endowment tops even Harvard’s—the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The foundation, through its contributions to professors like Edwards, is shaking up a quarter-century-old...
Typically, Harvard licenses its faculty’s cutting-edge discoveries to for-profit companies, earning royalties in return. But this time, Harvard is taking the unusual step of forgoing much of its royalties on Edwards’ TB vaccine spray both in the U.S. and abroad.
Edwards isn’t the first to discover a new way to guard against TB—two French scientists developed the so-called BCG vaccine to fight the disease in the early 1920s. But the present-day BCG method is far from ideal. It requires injecting needles into...
License agreements are just one of the obstacles preventing drugs from reaching the most desperate places. Humanitarian-aid workers still face the challenge of transporting the drugs—and in many cases, such as the BCG vaccine, that task that involves bringing refrigerated fluids to areas without electricity.