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While the Broad institute is private, it is a non-profit that is tightly affiliated with MIT and Harvard. To me, this is different than a patent getting transfe
by thedingwing 5y ago
While the Broad institute is private, it is a non-profit that is tightly affiliated with MIT and Harvard. To me, this is different than a patent getting transferred to a multinational pharmaceutical corporate.
- aluminum96 5y agoI didn't know they were a nonprofit. In that case, my OP is pretty off-topic for this case.
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- rst 5y agoNon-profits can still have patent portfolios that they try to exploit for commercial gain -- though by licensing, rather than producing products directly. When the research was publicly funded, the same conflicts of interest apply.
- dekhn 5y agoThe Broad also makes enormous bank as a sequencing service for pharma. They are "non profit" but they make a profit.