On Friday, 28 August 2020, six groups including Corporación Innovarte, Health Action International, Knowledge Ecology International, Medicines Law & Policy, Pharmaceutical Accountability Foundation, and Wemos wrote a joint letter to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Chief Scientist, Dr. Soumya Swaminathan,… Continue Reading
On Friday September 11, 2020, Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) and the Union for Affordable Cancer Treatment (UACT) submitted comments to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) regarding the “Prospective Grant of an Exclusive Patent License: Anti-CD56 as an Antibody-Drug Conjugate… Continue Reading
Finally there is a text available, and Trump’s Executive Order on international reference pricing is a lot less than promised. Does nothing for most people and nothing at all right now. The operative parts of the Executive Order are limited… Continue Reading
Senator Durbin has written letters to vaccine manufacturers Moderna, AstraZeneca, Sanofi, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, Pfizer, Novavax, and Janssen/Johnson & Johnson, asking eight detailed questions. Question 8 asked about federal funding of the vaccine, government rights in patents, and the by Bayh-Dole… Continue Reading
(More on Moderna here: https://www.keionline.org/moderna) KEI received a letter Dr. Gary Disbrow, the Acting Director of BARDA, just before noon today. BARDA2KEI.Moderna.Patent.Disclosures.20200903 The BARDA investigation follows the announcement on Saturday that DARPA was also investigating DARPA’s failures to disclose DARPA… Continue Reading
On September 2, 2020, Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) sent a letter to the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) regarding a potential failure by Moderna, Inc. to disclose federal funding in patents supported by BARDA. KEI requested information concerning… Continue Reading
These are the KEI comments on the questions raised by the FDA in the 85 FR 33165 and 85 FR 33169 Federal Register notices. KEI-comments-FDAOrange Book-31aug2020 KEI comments to the FDA relating to the Approved Drug Products With Therapeutic Equivalence… Continue Reading
(Update: The NIH has provided a response to our comments on August 31, 2020) On August 28, 2020, Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) and the Union for Affordable Cancer Treatment (UACT) submitted comments to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) “Prospective… Continue Reading
(More on Moderna here: https://www.keionline.org/moderna) On August 28, 2020, KEI asked DARPA to investigate apparent failures to disclose U.S. government funding into Moderna’s patents and applications. The request, which was first covered by the Washington Post, and subsequently by Statnews,… Continue Reading
(More on Moderna here: https://www.keionline.org/moderna) Luis Gil Abinader has taken a deep dive into Moderna’s surprising practice of never declaring government funding in its 126 patents and 154 patent applications, despite having had funding from multiple federal agencies. One outcome… Continue Reading