Prize4Life

Prize4Life is an effort to accelerate treatments for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). It was created by 32 year old Avichai “Avi” Kremer. According to news reports Kremer was diagnosed with ALS in 2004, and has only a few years to live. He started Prize4Life to raise money for prizes to stimulation research.


Here are some extracts from this moving story in the March 28 issue of the Boston Globe:

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2005: Letter of 162 experts asking World Health Organization to evaluate a proposed treaty framework for medical research and development.

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Senator Ted Kennedy’s 2005 remarks in the U.S. Senate on the Doha Declaration on TRIPS and Public Health

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Implementing TRIPS safeguards with particular attention to administrative models for compulsory licensing of patents

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