On Thursday, 20 September 2018, Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) delivered the following statement in Rome during discussions at the WHO Regional Committee for Europe on the WHO Roadmap on Access to Medicines and Vaccines. Oral statement of Knowledge Ecology International… Continue Reading
UPDATE: On Wednesday, 15 August 2018, WHO Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus provided a response to the open letter on the Roadmap on Access to Medicines and Vaccines 2019-2023. The Director-General’s response can be found here: WHO DG letter to… Continue Reading
On 11 July 2018, Knowledge Ecology International delivered the following statement on patents and health at the 28th session of WIPO’s Standing Committee on the Law of Patents (SCP). Statement of Knowledge Ecology International Agenda item 7 – Patents and… Continue Reading
(Update: The NIH provided a response to our comments on August 1, 2020) July 10, 2018 Sury Vepa, Ph.D., J.D., Senior Licensing and Patenting Manager National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences National Institutes of Health Email sury.vepa@nih.gov Re: Prospective Grant… Continue Reading
On July 9, 2018, KEI asked the NIH to extend the deadline for comments described on the Federal Register notice 83 FR 30448 until information about the enrollment and costs of NIH-funded clinical trials involving mesothelin expressing cancers, and trials… Continue Reading
On April 19, 2018, KEI filed a lawsuit against the NIH license of CD30 CAR T patents to Gilead. On April 11, 2019, the lawsuit was dismissed on the grounds that KEI lacked standing. KEI blogs January 5, 2018. 2018: Briefing note… Continue Reading
In May 2017, the 70th World Health Assembly passed a cancer resolution (WHA70.12, Cancer prevention and control in the context of an integrated approach). At the time KEI provided the following commentary on the cancer resolution: On Tuesday, May 30,… Continue Reading
21 May 2018 Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) intends to deliver the following statement on Addressing the global shortage of, and access to, medicines and vaccines. 11.5 Addressing the global shortage of, and access to, medicines and vaccines Documents A71/12 and… Continue Reading
KEI was invited to participate in the “WHO Global Dialogue on Partnerships for Sustainable Financing of Noncommunicable Disease (NCD) Prevention and Control,” which was held in Copenhagen, Denmark, April 9-11, 2018. A web page for the event is here. Overall,… Continue Reading