Workshop To Address Public Interest And CRISPR Gene Editing, CAR T Cancer Treatment

Experts at a one-day workshop in Washington DC on 15 September will discuss public interest aspects of patents and two breakthrough new medical technologies related to gene editing (CRISPR) and cancer treatment (CAR T).

The 15 September event, entitled, “Patents, the Public Interest and Two New Medical Technologies: CRISPR and CAR T,” will feature a unique mix of key health advocates, academics, licensing and standards experts, congressional staff and others.

A live webcast on YouTube will be available here.

Event moderators include William New of Intellectual Property Watch and Sarah Karlin-Smith of Politico.

The full KEI event announcement is reprinted below: 

Workshop: Patents, the Public Interest and Two New Medical Technologies: Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR), Chimeric Antigen Receptors (CAR) technologies

On September 15th, 2017, Knowledge Ecology International will be hosting a workshop on: “Patents, the Public Interest and Two New Medical Technologies: CRISPR and CAR T.”

CRISPR related inventions include breakthrough technologies to modify genes, which have broad applications for innovations in medicine, agriculture and other fields.

CAR T therapies are an exciting new approach to treating cancer and other diseases, including previously incurable cancers.

Both technologies were developed with significant funding from the U.S. federal government.

There are controversies over the licensing of several CRISPR related inventions, and over the pricing of new CAR Treatments, including most recently the decision by Novartis to charge $475,000 for Kymriah, a CAR T treatment for leukemia.

The workshop will bring feature a diverse group of experts and stakeholders to discuss the public policy challenges appropriate governance of CRISPR and CAR T’s intellectual property.

Date: Friday, September 15, 2017
Location: Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health, 700 Second St. NE (near Union Station), Washington, DC 20002

To Register: use this form.

A PDF version of the program is available here.