Federal R&D, Drug Discovery, and Pricing: Insights from the NIH-University-Industry Relationship

Schacht, Wendy H.

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

关键词: Budgets;    Drugs;    Federal aid to medical research;    Medicine;    Science policy;   

RP-ID  :  RL32324
RP-ID  :  RL32324_2009Feb03

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来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

This report explores the reasons behind government funding of research and development and subsequent efforts to facilitate private sector commercialization of the results of such work, without addressing issues associated with drug costs or pricing. It particularly looks at the manner in which the National Institutes of Health (NIH) supports research to encourage the development of new pharmaceuticals and therapeutics, particularly through cooperative activities among academia, industry, and government.