Projektnummer

0053493

Zusammenfassung

Each year millions of people die needlessly in developing countries because they lack access to medicines. Patent protection, which leads to high prices, is one factor among others in the creation of barriers to access for these people. In Germany, the government sets a focus in research on commercialising results, with the result that increasingly medical researchers consequently patent medical inventions to protect their intellectual property. However, medical research is funded mainly through public money worldwide. Controversies arise when public money is used researching new medic...