Universities Allied for Essential Medicines

Our drugs. Our labs. Our responsibility.

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Current UAEM Projects

Bayh-Dole Act analogues

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The Bayh-Dole Act (USA, 1980) governs the patenting and licensing of publicly funded research in the USA. It has a mixed record despite strong positive rhetoric. Similar Acts are now being developed in both India and South Africa. UAEM has analyzed the development of these new Acts. [Read More]

Canadian legislation

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UAEM is supporting the efforts by the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network to reform Canada's Access to Medicines Regime (CAMR), patent legislation intended to allow generic Canadian production of patented medications for export to poor countries, but underused due to excessive red tape. [Read More]

International agreements

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UAEM is participating in the discussions of the WHO's Intergovernmental Working Group on Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property. [Read More]

Neglected disease research

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We try to stimulate more research and development to meet the needs of the poor, including on new treatments, diagnostics, and vaccines for neglected tropical diseases. [Read More]

Patent pools

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UAEM is working to convince university technology transfer offices to engage with the patent pools being developed by UNITAID (for HIV drugs) and GlaxoSmithKline (for neglected diseases). [Read More]

Student empowerment

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We help students carry out successful campaigns on university campuses worldwide. We provide educational resources (including this web site) and individual advice, and we organize an annual conference. [Read More]

Technology transfer metrics

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Developing new ways to measure the success of university technology transfer, emphasizing social impact. [Read More]

University of California campaign

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UAEM is making a special effort to engage the University of California, and encourage them to practice global access licensing for all new medical technologies. [Read More]

University technology transfer

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We aim to change the way universities commercialize drugs and other medical technologies, to protect low-cost access for the poor. This is UAEM's biggest and longest-running campaign, and is ongoing at universities around the world. [Read More]

USA legislation

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Campaigns around excessive protection of 'biologic' drug patents (2009), and global access provisions for federally funded research (2006). [Read More]

Upcoming Events

Contre l'apartheid sanitaire : un rôle pour nos universités dans l'atténuation de la crise relative à l'accès aux médicaments

March 12, 2010 11:30 am EST

GH/Innovate 2010 Global Health & Innovation Conference

April 17, 2010 7:45 am PDT

Who is UAEM?

Many important medicines and public health technologies are developed in academic laboratories. Their accessibility in poor nations is profoundly affected by the research, patenting and licensing decisions made by universities.
We are a group of university students who believe that our universities have an opportunity and a responsibility to improve global access to public health goods.

Blog

New Site Launched! - 11 Jan 2010

Welcome to the newly redesigned essentialmedicine.org! Things have been shifted around a little and re-organized to make more sense as our organization grows. If you find any problems with the new... [Read More]

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uaem: If Pelosi wants access to publicly funded meds for all, I hope she'll rethink the bad biologics provisions http://tinyurl.com/ybazfqo

UAEM News

ACTIVISTS APPLAUD SEN. MIKULSKI PUSH FOR AFFORDABLE SCREENING FOR WOMEN BUT ASK: WILL YOU SUPPORT AFFORDABLE TREATMENT WITH AN EFFECTIVE GENERIC BIOLOGICS PATHWAY? - 4 Dec 2009

For Immediate Release Kim Cunningham, American Medical Student Association (AMSA) pr [at] amsa [dot] org Ethan Guillen, Director, Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM) ethan [dot]... [Read More]

Hundreds of Students, Scholars, and Experts to Gather at Yale Access to Medicine Conference - 12 Nov 2009

MEDIA ADVISORY Contact: Jake Izenberg (jacob dot izenberg at yale dot edu) Hundreds of Students, Scholars, and Experts to Gather at Yale Access to Medicine ConferenceUAEM National Conference to Be... [Read More]

BIG VICTORY: 6 Universities, AUTM and NIH agree to access principles - 11 Nov 2009

After years of UAEM campaigning, 6 universities, AUTM and NIH have agreed to access principles for licensing and patenting. While we are enthusiastic about the adoption of these principles and while... [Read More]

UAEM Website Hacked - 6 Nov 2009

Our website was hacked recently and inappropriate content appeared. We would like to apologize for any inconvenience this caused our supporters. Thanks to our technical web support, we believe the... [Read More]

Hot off the press: UAEM Fall ‘09 Newsletter! - 2 Nov 2009

Check out the latest edition of the UAEM Newsletter with articles on the AffordableMedsNow.org campaign, the Berkeley patent pool meeting, the new structure of the Coordinating Committee, chapter... [Read More]

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