How much of that goes to the actual researchers vs the school?
28 karma · joined June 11, 2010
"The research was paid for by the National Institutes of Health and the German government (some co-authors work at the University of Bonn). Northeastern University holds a patent on the method of producing drugs and licensed the patent to a private company, NovoBiotic Pharmaceuticals, in Cambridge, Mass., which owns the rights to any compounds produced. Dr. Lewis is a paid consultant to the company."
If the research was paid for by the National Institutes of Health, why is the patent privately owned? This does not seem fair to taxpayers.