UC PRESIDENT YUDOF CONTACTS ALMOST 400 UAEM SUPPORTERS IN ADVANCE OF MARCH 12th MEETING

Almost four hundred of UAEM-UC's supporters, from Japan to Uganda, and Pakistan to Palo Alto, received a letter from University of California President Mark Yudof on March 2, 2009, in response to their letters urging the adoption of a Global Access License policy for the UC's medical innovations.

President Yudof's letter, described previous examples of innovative licensing practices at the UC, and reiterated his invitation for UAEM to present its Framework Proposal at the March 12 meeting of the systemwide Technology Transfer Advisory Committee in Oakland. The Framework emerged after years of collaboration with physicians, scientists, attorneys, and technology transfer administrators from the world's most important research institutions and medical service providers.

Although UAEM members and supporters appreciate the past, UAEM at Berkeley, Davis, Hastings, Irvine, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Diego and San Francisco are decidedly focused on the future, and will continue to lobby the TTAC and campus-based administrators to join a process that will turn the Framework into the UC's Global Access Policy.

Our reply to the President was delivered on March 4, 2009, and is available here . In it, we respond to misconceptions about the issue we confront, its dimensions, and the UC's ability to shape future outcomes. Responding to the Office of the President, we demonstrate the viability of the proposal, its ability to substantially affect therapy access, and its acceptability to industry allies.

Only time stands between the University of California and a Global Access License.