Talk:Kenneth S. Warren Institute

Drug and Vaccine Development Corporation
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The Kenneth S. Warren Institute was originally incorporated in accordance with the New York State Not-for-Profit laws and originally chartered in 1980 under the name of The Drug and Vaccine Development Corporation (DVDC). In response to a U.S. mandate on the industrial sector to contribute more directly to improving public health in emerging nations, the DVDC espoused to pay particular attention to the health problems affecting populations in the developing world, and it sought to promote working the fields of parasitology and tropical medicine.

Although the federal impetus waned with subsequent presidential administrations and corporate sponsorship virtually disappeared, the organization’s membership maintained its objectives throughout the years to establish facilities to further its research goals. Its mission is to facilitate the discovery and development of new therapeutics to alleviate the health problems of the world’s poorest people.

I spent some time looking for sources connecting the DVDC to the Warren Institute and I couldn't find any.

I found the following, which were very interesting, especially the 3rd one which has their whole business plan. Apparently around 1980 a NYC institute called the Center for Public Resources (which apparently was also involved in the setting up the Vaccine court per this NAS report) was funded by the Rocekfeller Foundation to build on the basic research it was funding via its Great Neglected Diseases program, to figure out a way to get industry involved. According to the business plan, the idea is that the Drug and Vaccine Development Corporation would be set up as a notprofit standalone technology transfer organization, like Research Corporation Technologies, and would put agreements in place with universities to a) fund research, b) acquire ownership of inventions, c) patent them and bundle them; d) license them to industry. I think they anticipated directing research to develop things in a targeted way as well. But that was the idea. The records below, are the only things I could find about it. Interesting.

Whoever wrote the content above, thinks it morphed into this Institute. Cerami was funded under the Great Neglected Diseases program, but that is the only connection I could find.


 * . Part of the https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/BB/ The Joshua Lederberg Papers], archived by the NIH.  See July 1980 Correspondence.
 * . Part of the https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/BB/ The Joshua Lederberg Papers], archived by the NIH.  See October 1980 Correspondence.

Not sure this is relevant, but it looks that way..

-- Jytdog (talk) 05:55, 26 July 2017 (UTC)


 * User:Boghog it occurred to me that you might have some memory of this Drug and Vaccine Development Corporation.. do you? Jytdog (talk) 21:19, 26 July 2017 (UTC)