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Virtual Platform For Intellectual Property Sharing Aims To Speed Development Of Drug Treatments
"The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) launched a consortium on Wednesday that would allow the public and private sector to share intellectual property to promote the development of new drugs to treat diseases such as malaria," Reuters reports (10/26). "Under the agreement between [WIPO], ... the companies and the non-profit BIO Ventures for Global Health (BVGH), public and private sector organizations will share valuable intellectual property (IP) and expertise with the global health research community on WIPO Re:Search, a virtual platform," the U.N. News Centre writes (10/26).
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