Europe's top universities threaten €2 billion pharma innovation project boycott
This article was originally published in SRA
Executive Summary
Twenty-two leading research-intensive universities in Europe have strongly criticised the €2 billion Innovative Medicines Initiative, a public-private partnership set up by the European Commission and the European pharmaceutical industry association EFPIA to overcome research bottlenecks in drug development, saying it gives funding and intellectual property rights disadvantages to academics and small and medium-sized enterprises1.
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