• Hegar@fedia.io
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    4 months ago

    Through UCLA’s Technology Transfer Group, which transforms brilliant research into global market products, the scientists have co-founded a medical development company called Pelage Pharmaceuticals

    In case you were curious how this publicly funded research is going to be turned into private profits.

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      4 months ago

      I don’t think UCLA is going to produce retail products themselves.

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        4 months ago

        They could always make the research and processes public domain, so no one person can unilaterally profit.

        But that’s not what they did, and that’s the problem.