[A2k] Feb. 8: GWU & KEI workshop on medical innovation prizes

[Judit Rius Sanjuan]

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This Friday, February 8, George Washington University (GWU) Law School
and Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) are co-sponsoring a workshop
on prizes to stimulate medical innovation.

The objective of this workshop is to bring together policy makers and
experts to debate the proposal to create a new mechanism to stimulate
private investments in medical R&D. We will consider the economic,
management and legal issues surrounding the use of monetary prizes as
an alternative mechanism to stimulate private investments in R&D.
This will include, but not be limited to, a discussion the proposed
Medical Prize Fund Act of 2007 (S.2210, 110th Congress) introduced by
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders.

We are inviting academic, NGO, industry and government experts to
participate (see agenda below).

For more information (location & recommended readings) please visit: http://www.keionline.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=167

AGENDA:  GWU - KEI Workshop on Prizes

Working title:  Medical Innovation Prize Fund:  New paradigm for drug
development, or unworkable scheme?

Date of Workshop: February 8, 2008
Venue: George Washington University Law School / L101 - Jacob Burns
Moot Court / Ground Floor 2000 H Street NW

9:00 AM  -  Introduction

        John Duffy (GWU) and James Love (KEI)

9:30 AM to 11:00 AM  - Medical Innovation Prizes and the Proposed
Medical Innovation Prize Fund Act, S.2210

         Moderator: Christopher Murray, Senior Counsel, Consumer Union

         David Reynolds, Senior Health Policy Advisor, Senator Sanders
(I-VT)
         Ed Mierzwinski, Consumer Program Director, U.S. PIRG
         John Erickson, CEO, Sequoia Pharmaceuticals
         Philip S. Johnson, Chief Patent Counsel, Johnson and Johnson

11 AM to 11:15 AM - break

11:15 AM  to 1 PM  - Valuation of Prizes for drug development

         Moderator: Todd Stein, Representative Tom Allen (D-ME)

         Aidan Hollis, University of Calgary, Problems & possibilities
in making prizes depend on health impact
         Alex Tabarrok, George Mason University
         James Love, Director, Knowledge Ecology International
         John E. Calfee, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute

1 PM to 2 PM - Lunch (by invitation)

2 PM to 3:30 PM  - Management of Prizes

         Moderator:  Lindsay McAllister, Representative Jan Schakowsky
(D-IL)

         Michael Abramowicz, George Washington University
         Sean Flynn, American University
         Merrill Goozner, Center for Science in the Public Interest,
"How will prizes impact innovation?"
         Steve Merrill, Executive Director, NAS STEP Board, "Lessons
from innovation prizes in other fields"

3:30 PM to 3:45 PM - Break

3.45 PM    - Open Discussion, For and Against the Medical Innovation
Prize Fund

         Moderators: John F. Duffy, GWU and James Love, KEI

5:30 PM    -  Closing remarks


Judit Rius Sanjuan
Attorney at Knowledge Ecology International
www.keionline.org / www.cptech.org
Phone: +1.202.332.2670, x18
Email: judit.rius@keionline.org