[Pharm-policy] MSU Profits from Cisplatin

[James Love]

http://science.kennesaw.edu/~mhermes/cisplat/cisplat16.htm

                   Cisplatin
         16. Profits from Cisplatin


Following the discovery by Barnett Rosenberg and coworkers at Michigan
State University (see modules on electric fields, platinum electrodes,
one scientist's story) that certain platinum-containing compounds
inhibited cell division and cured solid tumors resulting from cancer,
cisplatin was approved by the Food and Drug Administration for the
treatment of genitourinary tumors in 1978.1 Since then, Michigan State
has collected over $160 million in royalties from cisplatin and a
related drug, carboplatin, which was approved by the FDA in 1989 for the
treatment of ovarian cancers. 

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