The Law That Catalyzed Nobel Prize-Winning Research At UC Berkeley By Carol Mimura
KEY POINTS
The Bayh-Dole Act induces private sector investment into R&D projects that commercialize university research
Congress passed the Bayh-Dole Act in 1980 to grant ownership of patents covering inventions its researchers discover using federal funds.
In 2019 alone, America s largest biopharmaceutical companies invested $83 billion roughly double the NIH s entire budget into developing breakthrough medicines. Private investors poured billions more into small startups.
U.C. Berkeley biochemist Dr. Jennifer Doudna and her collaborator, Emmanuel Charpentier, recently won a Nobel Prize for their work on CRISPR, the revolutionary gene-editing technology that could help eradicate genetic disorders, create fossil fuel alternatives, improve crops, and improve the health of livestock.
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