Sisule F. Musungu – The Geneva based Brocher Foundation has released a call for proposalsfor visiting researchers for 2013. The deadline for applications is 20th January 2012. The Brocher Foundation residencies last between one and four months between February and May or between July and October. Successful applicants get a workplace and an accommodation in the Foundation’s lakeside premises. Breakfast and dinner are also provided every day. For the 2013 period the Foundation is particularly interested in topics on the following areas: Equitable access to medical care, Biobanks, Biosecurity and Dual Use Dilemmas, Clinical Trials and Research on Human Subjects, Genetic Testing and Screening, Health Care Reform, Nanotechnology, Neglected diseases, Pandemic planning, Reproductive technology, Stem Cells and Cell Therapy and Organ transplantation.
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Visiting Researchers 2013 – Call for proposals at Brocher Centre, Geneva
Thursday, December 8th, 2011Cutting edge fixed-dose brand HIV drug combinations to speed up enforcement of UNITAID patent pool plan
Monday, June 7th, 2010Daniele Dionisio - New to IQsensato’s Guest Papers section is a short paper entitled Cutting edge fixed-dose brand HIV drug combinations to speed up enforcement of UNITAID patent pool plan contributed by myself (Member, European Parliament Working Group on Innovation, Access to Medicines and Poverty-Related Diseases).
Three books on IP launched in Brazil
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010Pedro Paranagua – Brazil’s Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV), a higher education institution comprised of four Schools (Economic, Business, Law, and Social Science), placed amongst the world’s top-5 “policy-maker think-tank” according to the US magazine Foreign Policy has launched three new books (in Brazilian Portuguese) on intellectual property -related fields.
Is our Health in the Right Hands?
Monday, January 18th, 2010Sisule F. Musungu - The 126th session of the Executive Board (EB) of the World Health Organization (WHO) meets in Geneva from Today (Monday, 18th January 2010) to Friday with a packed agenda. This meeting comes in the wake of increasing questions regarding the management and governance of the world health body which for far too long has escaped serious public scrutiny by hiding behind the perception that it is a technical body whose work ordinary mortals can not understand.
