Our podcast features Vital Transformation’s Grumpy Old Men (Harry Bowen, Joseph Hammang, and Duane Schulthess) and their recently published peer review study. The study, “The Relative Contributions of NIH and Private Sector Funding to the Approval of New Biopharmaceuticals” investigates 8,000 NIH-funded patents invented from over 23,000 NIH grants to determine how much an NIH-funded discovery impacts the creation of new drugs approved by the FDA to treat patients.

Additionally, the Grumpy Old Men discuss the many profound implications of the recently approved Medicare price control provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act, the World Trade Organization’s decision to exercise IP ‘TRIPS’ waivers on the core intellectual property of the mRNA technologies used by Pfizer and Moderna in the COVID-19 vaccines, and the continued attack on IP with the hypothetical use of ‘march-in rights’ for NIH-derived patents in commercially available medicines.

Our per review study, “The Relative Contributions of NIH and Private Sector Funding to the Approval of New Biopharmaceuticals” is available via open access. https://bit.ly/3LyD4Eu