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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yalepatents.org has a few primary goals:

  1. to provide accessible information on biomedical knowledge patented by Yale.
  2. 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.
  3. to investigate the development of local biotech industry from the perspective of academic research.