AUTHOR'S BIO
Harold E. Varmus
President of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. From 1993 to 1999 he was Director of the US National Institutes of Health. A Nobel laureate in Medicine (1989).
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Protecting Research and Discovery
Harold E. Varmus Series: Science and Society 2001-07-03The rules of intellectual property protection that safeguard ideas and materials produced by publicly and privately funded research have encouraged many medical and scientific innovations. Without the opportunity to obtain patents for new inventions and discoveries – and thus profit from their distribution and use – there would be no incentive to make the often massive investments required to search for and develop new drugs and other breakthroughs. ... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 14541
