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Strategic Patenting of Pharmaceutical Inventions and the Public's Right to Access Medicines: The South African Context

The African Journal of Information and Communication, 2015
Pharmaceutical firms' use of strategic patenting to influence the markets within which their patented inventions sit is legally questionable. Such patenting entails filing patents with the intention of blocking potential competitors from innovating and ...
Vuyisile Hobololo
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Compulsory Licensing Issues and Trends in Asia [PDF]

Pharmaceutical Patent Analyst, 2013
*Tilleke & Gibbins International Ltd., Supalai Grand Tower, 26th Floor 1011 Rama 3 Road, Chongnonsi, Yannawa, Thailand Tel.: +66 2653 5874 E-mail: siraprapha.r@tilleke.com Government-use compulsory licensing has almost always stirred up controversies and debates with regard to its appropriateness, actual benefits and detriments.
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Pre‐analytical optimization of cell‐free DNA and extracellular vesicle‐derived DNA for mutation detection in liquid biopsies

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Pre‐analytical handling critically determines liquid biopsy performance. This study defines practical best‐practice conditions for cell‐free DNA (cfDNA) and extracellular vesicle–derived DNA (evDNA), showing how processing time, storage conditions, tube type, and plasma input volume affect DNA integrity and mutation detection.
Jonas Dohmen, Lucrezia De Santis, Bret M. Stephens, Vincent Bernard, Jörg C. Kalff, Lara Braun, Phillipp Leyendecker, Johannes Röttgen, Daniel Weissinger, Anirban Maitra, Paola A. Guerrero, Alexander Semaan   +11 more
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The role of intellectual property rights on access to medicines in the WHO African region: 25 years after the TRIPS agreement

BMC Public Health, 2021
Background It is now 25 years since the adoption of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) and the same concerns raised during its negotiations such as high prices of medicines, market exclusivity and delayed ...
Marion Motari, Jean-Baptiste Nikiema, Ossy M. J. Kasilo, Stanislav Kniazkov, Andre Loua, Aissatou Sougou, Prosper Tumusiime   +6 more
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Interrogating the immune landscape of microsatellite stable RAS‐mutated colon cancer

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
COLOSSUS project RAS‐mutated MSS colon cancer study explored transcriptomics and immune cell density by immunohistochemistry (IHC), Immunoscore (IS), ISIC/TuLIS scores, mutation counts, and detected different prevalences but similar microenvironment composition across immune markers with clinical relevance for future immunotherapy combination ...
Rodrigo Dienstmann, Eduardo García‐Galea, Alice O'Farrell, Zak Kinsella, Maxime Meylan, Florent Petitprez, Ingrid Arijs, Tom Venken, Hari Ps, Adrian Lärkeryd, Ian Miller, Janick Selves, Nadja Meindl‐Beinker, Fiorella Ruiz‐Pace, Elena Élez, Raquel Comas‐Navarro, Frank Lincoln, Dirk Fey, Gift Nyamundanda, Aoife Nolan, Joern Lewin, Raquel Perez‐Lopez, Jonathan Briody, Kathleen Bennett, Walter Kolch, David Matallanas, Alexander Kel, Enrique Arenas, Joaquín Arribas, Bart Ghesquière, Josep Tabernero, Julie Meilleroux, Deborah McNamara, Ray McDermott, Marvin Lim, Mary O'Reilly, Brian Bird, Lisa Stack, Lucia Moloney, Patrick Morris, Keith Egan, Maciej Milewski, Lars Scheuer, Joachim Behringer, Georg Bolz, Ramon Salazar, Cristina Santos, Andrea Ruiz, Orla Casey, Verena Murphy, Matthias Ebert, Livio Trusolino, Diether Lambrechts, Anguraj Sadanandam, Catherine Sautès‐Fridman, Jochen Prehn, Paolo Nuciforo, Jacques Fieschi, Florence Monville, Darran O'Connor, Wolf Fridman, Annette Byrne   +61 more
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Keratin 19 as a prognostic marker and contributing factor of metastasis and chemoresistance in high‐grade serous ovarian cancer

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Keratin 19 (KRT19) is overexpressed in high‐grade serous ovarian cancer with high levels of Kallikrein‐related peptidases (KLK) 4–7 and is associated with poor survival. In vivo analyses demonstrate that elevated KRT19 increases peritoneal tumour burden.
Sophia Bielesch, Isabel Vogel, Sina Nokodian, Johanna Moeller, Antonia Blechschmidt, Vicky Hecht, Vanessa Kuentzel, Katharina Thiedig, Melissa Schwab, Oliver Schilling, Holger Bronger, Marion Kiechle, Viktor Magdolen, Tobias Dreyer   +13 more
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CD47 promotes mitogen‐activated protein kinase and epithelial‐to‐mesenchymal transition molecular programs to drive prometastatic phenotypes in non‐small cell lung cancer

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Beyond its role in immune evasion, this study identified that CD47 drives tumor‐intrinsic signaling in non‐small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Transcriptomic profiling and functional studies revealed that CD47 regulates cell adhesion, migration, and metastasis through an ERK–EMT signaling axis.
Asa P.Y. Lau, Lilian G. Zhai, Ryunosuke Hoshi, Zackary Rousseau, Abraam Zakhary, Yin Fang Wu, Rola M. Saleeb, Heyu Ni, Kelsie L. Thu   +8 more
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Heterozygous loss‐of‐function alleles associate the conserved 3′‐5′ exoribonuclease EXOSC10 with hypersensitivity to the anticancer drug 5‐fluorouracil

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
EXOSC10, an essential nuclear RNA exosome‐associated 3′‐5′ exoribonuclease, is inhibited by the anticancer drug 5‐fluorouracil (5‐FU), and EXOSC10 depletion increases 5‐FU sensitivity. The colon‐cancer variant EXOSC10S402T, located in a proteolysis motif, is stable and nuclear but nonfunctional in vivo.
Radhika Sain, Yann Le Page, Frédéric Percevault, Emmanuelle Becker, Luc Negroni, Almudena Fernandez, Marta Cantero, Diego Muñoz‐Santos, Lluís Montoliu, Cyrille Garnier, Michael Primig   +10 more
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Is the Compulsory Licensing Mechanism Guaranteed by TRIPS the Best Remedy to Improve Access to Biological Therapies Worldwide?

Eastern European Journal of Transnational Relations, 2019
A compulsory licence is an authorisation under the state administration to use intellectual property rights by third parties, subject to payment of remuneration, regardless of the patent holder's objection.
Zbigniew Więckowski
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Molecular cancer prevention: Intercepting disease

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Oncological practice must evolve, from treating established tumours to proactive cancer interception before clinical manifestation. This will require mechanistic insight into tumour initiation, validated biomarkers of early disease development and redesigned clinical trials, enabling cancer interception to become a core pillar of oncology with the ...
Charlotte Grieco, Tej Pandya, Charles Swanton   +2 more
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