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.

• "Letter, Center for Public Resources to Rockefeller University" (PDF). July 1, 1980. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 27, 2017.. Part of the https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/BB/ The Joshua Lederberg Papers], archived by the NIH. See July 1980 Correspondence.
• "Letter, Center for Public Resources to Rockfeller University" (PDF). October 9, 1980. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 14, 2017.. Part of the https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/BB/ The Joshua Lederberg Papers], archived by the NIH. See October 1980 Correspondence.
• Raymond, Susan Ueber (May 22, 1985). "Appendix: Drug and Vaccine Development Corporation Prospectus, Revised May 1981, by Center for Public Resources". Public and Private Roles in Immunization: The Donor Response (PDF). U.S. Agency For International Development. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 27, 2017.
• Abrams, WB (1980). "Drugs for Developing Countries: Industrial View". In Turner, Paul; Padgham, C.; Hedges, Alan (eds.). Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics: Proceedings of Plenary Lectures Symposia and Therapeutic Sessions of the First World Conference on Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics London, UK, 3–9 August 1980. Springer. ISBN 9781349059522. The pharmaceutical industry is developing novel new agents which could improve the treatment of diseases special to underdeveloped countries. A newly proposed organisation, the Drug and Vaccine Development Corporation, would attempt to coordinate the efforts of industry and academia towards this end. Rapid delivers to the people, however, will require improscment in health care delivers systems in host countries and modification of governmental restrictions on both sides.

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

• "Status of Biomedical Research and Related Technology for Tropical Diseases" (PDF). U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment,. September 1985. p. 49. The Rockefeller Foundation has sought to expand the role of the pharmaceutical industry in developing products for tropical diseases by making a series of grants to the Center for Public Resources. The center organized a task force of leaders from the pharmaceutical industry, the developing countries, academe, and assistance agencies following a 1979 conference at the Institute of Medicine. This task force designed a number of projects, but in 1981 and 1982, the pharmaceutical industry determined that it did not wish to match the Rockefeller Foundation's commitment to the cooperative effort and the individual projects, and the project was terminated. The Rockefeller Foundation points out that the outspoken support of Senators Jacob Javits, Richard Schweiker, and Edward Kennedy during the 1979 conference was not reflected in the political atmosphere of 1980, and suggests that industry cooperation may have been discouraged as a result (293). NB - ref 293 is Report to the Rockefeller Foundation Trustees on the Health Program, New York, December 1982{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)

-- 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)