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:
Sunday, 03 June 2007
IGWG Briefing Paper on Patent Pools
Collective Management of Intellectual Property — The use of Patent Pools to expand access to essential medical technologies
KEI Research Note 2007:3 (1)
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