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...fact that we didn't patent it makes us responsible," Wurtman says...
...Wurtman says he therefore founded the company Interneuron in 1988 with MIT as a part-owner for the sole purpose of licensing drugs for which MIT owns the patent...
...university patents discoveries, it doesn't go any place unless a company licenses it," Wurtman says. "To my knowledge, there are only one or two drugs ever to come out of Harvard teaching hospitals...
...agreed to set up the company to license MIT patents to do clinical testing," Wurtman says. But he adds this is not a conflict of interest because the company must compete for MIT patents; the company does not automatically receive patents...
...Very few professors are really involved in developing products," Wurtman says. "Great research is done in the university, but very little of it is applied. There are two goals: knowledge for knowledge's sake and solving problems. I don't see them in conflict...