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KEI December 2, 2016 meeting on the delinkage of R&D costs from drug prices

KEI is holding a December 2, 2016 meeting on the delinkage of R&D costs from drug prices.

The venue will be US Senate Hearing Room SD-106, Dirksen Office Building. The meeting will take place from 9:00am to 2:00pm.

A copy of the agenda is available here [1].

For more information about delinkage, see: http://delinkage.org [2].

To register for the event, please fill out this form: https://goo.gl/forms/AbP2npqLRLYneLjk1 [3].

For more information about the event, contact claire.cassedy@keionline.org. [4]

The topics discussed at the meeting will include:

What is delinkage, and why is it important?

Reform of pull mechanisms

What are end product prizes, and how do they work?
What is the open source dividend, how does it work, and why is it important?
How interim results prizes work

Making global norms for R&D funding (both push and pull)

Strategies for progressive delinkage

Next steps

Attached [5] is the most recent agenda (as updates are released, we will update the agenda below). Speakers and respondents include:

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