[bioundgrd] 5/1 - 2pm - Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM) Info session

Fri Apr 30 09:51:10 EDT 2010

>Interested in public health,
>neglected diseases, patent laws, or research?
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>UAEM is starting a new chapter at MIT.
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>Come find out about MIT UAEM!
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>UAEM
>Information Session
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>When?  THIS Saturday, May 1st  (2pm)
>Where? Rm 1-132
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>Refreshments will be served.
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>Universities Allied for Essential Medicine 
>(UAEM) is having a general information session 
>this SATURDAY May 1st (2pm, Room 1-132). We have 
>recently founded a chapter at MIT and we are 
>looking for some enthusiastic people who would 
>like to work with us! If you are interested in 
>coming to our infosession, please email us at 
><mailto:seeunmok at mit.edu>seeunmok at mit.edu with 
>your name, year, and email address by tomorrow 
>(friday) 11:59pm. If you can't come but are 
>interested in joining, please email us as well.
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>What is UAEM?
>Many important medicines and public health 
>technologies are developed in academic 
>laboratories. Their accessibility in poor 
>nations is profoundly affected by the research, 
>patenting and licensing decisions made by 
>universities. We are a group of university 
>students who believe that our universities have 
>an opportunity and a responsibility to improve 
>global access to public health goods.
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>Our Vision:
>Universities and publicly funded research 
>institutions will be part of the solution to the 
>access to medicines crisis by promoting medical 
>innovation in the public interest and ensuring 
>that all people regardless of income have access 
>to essential medicines and other health-related 
>technologies.
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>History:
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>In 2001, a group of Yale University law 
>students, together with Médecins Sans 
>Frontières, helped convince Yale and the 
>pharmaceutical company Bristol-Myers Squibb to 
>permit generic production of a critical 
>Yale-discovered HIV/AIDS drug in sub-Saharan 
>Africa, triggering dramatic 30-fold price 
>reductions. This was the first such concession 
>on an HIV/AIDS drug; price cuts on other 
>medications soon followed. This enabled a major 
>scale-up of HIV treatment throughout the 
>continent. The campaign showed those students 
>that, as major contributors to drug development, 
>universities are well positioned to influence 
>the way medical technologies are developed and 
>distributed, and thus can do much to help 
>alleviate the access-to-medicines crisis.
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>Since this initial victory, UAEM has grown into 
>a worldwide student organization with chapters 
>at over 40 research universities, and a 
>membership which includes students of medicine, 
>science, public health, economics, and many 
>other areas. The focus of the organization has 
>expanded from only asking how universities can 
>best license their innovations to promote global 
>access, to also asking how universities can best 
>direct and measure their research to have the 
>greatest social impact worldwide, and promoting 
>these ideals at the national and international 
>levels. We work continuously to raise general 
>awareness of these issues, and empower our 
>fellow students to tackle these challenges.
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>UAEM has active chapters at the following universities around the world:
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>Australia
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>University of Queensland
>Brisbane , Queensland , Australia
>University of Western Australia
>Perth , Western Australia , Australia
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>Canada
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>Canadian national group
>, Canada
>Dalhousie University
>Halifax , Nova Scotia , Canada
>McGill University
>Montreal , Quebec , Canada
>McMaster University
>Hamilton , Ontario , Canada
>Queen's University
>Kingston , Ontario , Canada
>Simon Fraser University
>Vancouver , British Columbia , Canada
>Thompson Rivers University
>Kamloops , British Columbia , Canada
>University of British Columbia
>Vancouver , British Columbia , Canada
>University of Manitoba
>Winnipeg , Manitoba , Canada
>University of Montreal
>Montreal , Quebec , Canada
>University of Ottawa
>Ottawa , Ontario , Canada
>University of Toronto
>Toronto , Ontario , Canada
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>Germany
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>Germany national group
>, Germany
>Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin
>Berlin , Berlin , Germany
>Ludwig Maximilian Universität/Technische Universität
>Munich , Germany
>Universität Freiburg
>Freiburg , Germany
>Universität Würzburg
>Würzburg , Germany
>University of Münster
>Münster , Germany
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>Nigeria
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>University of Lagos
>Lagos , Nigeria
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>Norway
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>University of Bergen
>Bergen , Norway
>University of Oslo
>Oslo , Norway
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>Nepal
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>Institute of Medicine
>Kathmandu , Nepal
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>Rwanda
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>National University of Rwanda
>Butare , Rwanda
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>Singapore
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>National University of Singapore
>Singapore , Singapore
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>Tanzania
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>Weill-Bugando University College of Health Sciences
>Mwanza , Tanzania
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>Uganda
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>Makerere University
>Kampala , Uganda
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>United Kingdom
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>Barts and Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry
>London , United Kingdom
>Hull York Medical School
>York , York , United Kingdom
>Imperial College London
>London , United Kingdom
>King's College London
>London , United Kingdom
>Peninsula Medical School (University of Exeter, University of Plymouth)
>Exeter , United Kingdom
>University College of London
>London , United Kingdom
>University of Aberdeen
>Aberdeen , United Kingdom
>University of Bristol
>Bristol , United Kingdom
>University of Dundee
>Dundee , United Kingdom
>University of Edinburgh
>Edinburgh , United Kingdom
>University of Leeds
>Leeds , United Kingdom
>University of Manchester
>Manchester , United Kingdom
>University of Oxford
>Oxford , United Kingdom
>University of Southampton
>Southampton , United Kingdom
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>United States
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>Arizona State University
>Tempe , Arizona , United States
>Boston University
>Boston , Massachusetts , United States
>California Northstate College of Pharmacy
>Rancho Cordova , United States
>Case Western Reserve University
>Cleveland , Ohio , United States
>Central Michigan University
>Mount Pleasant , Michigan , United States
>Claremont Colleges
>Claremont , California , United States
>Columbia University
>New York City , New York , United States
>Cornell University
>Ithaca , New York , United States
>Dartmouth University
>Hanover , New Hampshire , United States
>Duke University
>Durham , North Carolina , United States
>Emory University
>Atlanta , Georgia , United States
>George Washington University
>Washington , District Of Columbia , United States
>Harvard University
>Boston , Massachusetts , United States
>Indiana University
>Bloomington , Indiana , United States
>Johns Hopkins University
>Baltimore , Maryland , United States
>Massachusetts Institute of Technology
>Cambridge , Massachusetts , United States
>Mount Sinai School of Medicine
>Manhattan , New York , United States
>New York University
>New York , New York , United States
>Northwestern University
>Chicago , Illinois , United States
>Oregon Health Sciences University
>Portland , Oregon , United States
>Rice University
>Houston , Texas , United States
>St. John's University
>Queens , New York , United States
>Stanford University
>Stanford , California , United States
>University of California at Berkeley
>Berkeley , California , United States
>University of California at Davis
>Davis , California , United States
>University of California at Irvine
>Irvine , California , United States
>University of California at Los Angeles
>Los Angeles , California , United States
>University of California at San Diego
>San Diego , California , United States
>University of California at San Francisco
>San Francisco , California , United States
>University of California Hastings College of the Law
>San Francisco , California , United States
>University of Central Florida
>Orlando , Florida , United States
>University of Chicago
>Chicago , Illinois , United States
>University of Florida
>Gainesville , Florida , United States
>University of Illinois at Chicago
>Chicago , Illinois , United States
>University of Iowa
>Iowa City , Iowa , United States
>University of Maryland
>College Park , Maryland , United States
>University of Michigan
>Ann Arbor , Michigan , United States
>University of New Mexico
>Albuquerque , New Mexico , United States
>University of North Carolina
>Chapel Hill , North Carolina , United States
>University of Pennsylvania
>Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , United States
>University of South Florida
>Tampa , Florida , United States
>University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
>Houston , Texas , United States
>University of Vermont
>Burlington , Vermont , United States
>University of Washington
>Seattle , Washington , United States
>University of Wisconsin
>Madison , Wisconsin , United States
>Vanderbilt University
>Nashville , Tennessee , United States
>Washington University in St. Louis
>St. Louis , Missouri , United States
>Weill Cornell/Rockefeller/Sloan- Kettering
>New York , New York , United States
>Yale University
>New Haven , Connecticut , United States
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>Our Projects:
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>USA legislation
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>Campaigns around excessive protection of 
>'biologic' drug patents (2009), and global 
>access provisions for federally funded research 
>(2006). 
><http://essentialmedicine.org/projects/legislation/usa>[Read 
>More]
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>University technology transfer
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>We aim to change the way universities 
>commercialize drugs and other medical 
>technologies, to protect low-cost access for the 
>poor. This is UAEM's biggest and longest-running 
>campaign, and is ongoing at universities around 
>the world. 
><http://essentialmedicine.org/projects/university-technology-transfer>[Read 
>More]
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>International agreements
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>UAEM is participating in the discussions of the 
>WHO's Intergovernmental Working Group on Public 
>Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property. 
><http://essentialmedicine.org/projects/international-agreements>[Read 
>More]
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>Bayh-Dole Act analogues
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>The Bayh-Dole Act (USA, 1980) governs the 
>patenting and licensing of publicly funded 
>research in the USA. It has a mixed record 
>despite strong positive rhetoric. Similar Acts 
>are now being developed in both India and South 
>Africa. UAEM has analyzed the development of 
>these new Acts. 
><http://essentialmedicine.org/projects/legislation/bayh-dole>[Read 
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>Canadian legislation
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>UAEM is supporting the efforts by the Canadian 
>HIV/AIDS Legal Network to reform Canada's Access 
>to Medicines Regime (CAMR), patent legislation 
>intended to allow generic Canadian production of 
>patented medications for export to poor 
>countries, but underused due to excessive red 
>tape. 
><http://essentialmedicine.org/projects/legislation/canada>[Read 
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>Neglected disease research
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>We try to stimulate more research and 
>development to meet the needs of the poor, 
>including on new treatments, diagnostics, and 
>vaccines for neglected tropical diseases. 
><http://essentialmedicine.org/projects/neglected-disease-research>[Read 
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>Patent pools
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>UAEM is working to convince university 
>technology transfer offices to engage with the 
>patent pools being developed by UNITAID (for HIV 
>drugs) and GlaxoSmithKline (for neglected 
>diseases). 
><http://essentialmedicine.org/projects/patent-pools>[Read 
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>Student empowerment
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>We help students carry out successful campaigns 
>on university campuses worldwide. We provide 
>educational resources (including this web site) 
>and individual advice, and we organize an annual 
>conference. 
><http://essentialmedicine.org/projects/student-empowerment>[Read 
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>Technology transfer metrics
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>Developing new ways to measure the success of 
>university technology transfer, emphasizing 
>social impact. 
><http://essentialmedicine.org/projects/metrics>[Read 
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>University of California campaign
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>UAEM is making a special effort to engage the 
>University of California, and encourage them to 
>practice global access licensing for all new 
>medical technologies. 
><http://essentialmedicine.org/projects/uc-campaign>[Read 
>More]
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>If you are interested in coming to our infosession,
>please email us at 
><mailto:seeunmok at mit.edu>seeunmok at mit.edu<mailto:uaem-exec at mit.edu>
>with your name, year, and email address
>by tomorrow (friday) 11:59pm.
>If you can't come but are interested in joining, please email us as well.
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>MIT UAEM
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>Sarah S. Mok
>MIT Class of 2010
>Department of Biology
><mailto:seeunmok at mit.edu>seeunmok at mit.edu
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