On April 19, 2018, KEI filed a lawsuit against the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to block or invalidate an exclusive license of patents on a new chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR T) therapy to Gilead Sciences. A copy of… Continue Reading
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 5, 2018 kim.treanor@keionline.org (202)-332-2670 Six organizations are asking Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar to take actions to lower the price of eteplirsen, a drug sold under the brand name Exondys 51, to… Continue Reading
On March 21, 2018, KEI asked the NIH to investigate the failure of James Griffin, the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Novartis to disclose millions of dollars in NIH grants related to two patents for the leukemia drug midostaurin, marketed by… Continue Reading
1994. The 1994 NIH Report on CRADAs and the Reasonable Pricing Clause 1994. September 8. James Love. Pricing of Drugs Developed with Public Funds. Comments Presented to the Second NIH CRADA Forum. 1995. April 11. NIH Notice Rescinding the Reasonable… Continue Reading
KEI has appealed the NIH/NCI decision to proceed with the proposed exclusive license of anti-CD30 CAR T to Gilead, following an email of January 25, 2018 from Dr. David Lambertson of NCI rejecting all of KEI’s substantive suggestions and objections. KEI… Continue Reading
Pages on the 2012-2013 NIH Request October 15, 2013. 15 frequently asked questions about the 2012 ritonavir March-In petition /node/1815 October 8, 2013. Congress asked to hold hearings on NIH failure to address abuses of government financed medical inventions /node/1805… Continue Reading
More on Fabry here: https://keionline.org/fabry NIH rejects Fabrazyme March-In Petition December 7, 2010. Press release from Fabry patients: DHHS denies patient’s march-in request to end Genzyme’s rationing of treatment for Fabry Disease citing that FDA rules block manufactures from supplying… Continue Reading
This page has some broken links, due to some issues with our hosting company. The issues should be fixed soon.—– We have several pages related to the U.S. Bayh-Dole Act here. KEI efforts to address pricing and other public interest… Continue Reading
(More on government funded inventions here) 2015 2015: NIH refuses to give information about principals in company seeking exclusive license to HCV patents 2016 2016: AAVMediated Aquaporin Gene Transfer To Treat Sjögren’s Syndrome 2016: Great Lakes Neuroscience and NIH exclusive… Continue Reading