About
The writer:
Joseph Franklin completed his PhD in cell biology at Yale in the spring of 2010 and is currently working on a few projects as a postdoc. In the lab, he studies the cell biology of Trypanosoma brucei, a single-celled parasite that causes African sleeping sickness. He also develops computational tools to analyze and display high-throughput DNA sequencing data. Joe is starting law school in the fall of 2010. email | twitter
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- to provide accessible information on biomedical knowledge patented by Yale.
- to spark an informed debate in the research community and beyond about both the merits of patenting academic research, as well as the technology-transfer process in general.
- to investigate the development of local biotech industry from the perspective of academic research.
