TEDxBoston - Dr Jay Bradner - Opensource Drug Discovery

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Dr. Jay Bradner Research Scientist and Instructor in Medicine at Harvard and Dana Farber Cancer Institute, shares his breakthrough approach for subverting the aggressive behavior of cancer by reprogramming a cell's fundamental identity . . . and he's giving the secrets away in order to spur open-source drug discovery.
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[@ouuutside]

This is really incredible.

[@Tibbon]

I'm wondering if a GPL-style patent license (or copyright for the compound information) could be written, enabling labs to release papers and information that anyone can work with, but mandating that all things that build off of it are released under the same license (just like GPL programming code).
GPL-style licensing has created several successful commercial for-profit companies that make money from additional support and distribution surrounding the open source product.

[@BitsOfQuantum]

That's great you work in drug discovery: thank you for your contributions. As you know better than me, drugs are temperature sensitive; how do you feel about big pharma shipping there medications in uncontrolled containers? For example, a chemotherapy pill which states not to exceed a certain temp.

[@joshyu1124]

Dr. Jay Bradner, now the president of Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research. Kinda ironic...

[@edchen1240]

At, 6:54, "pet PET," that was super funny!

[@DefaultName-bw1bx]

What happened to this potential drug?

[@TheKingRevenger]

He is now in big farmas pocket at Novartis...

[@karottenknabe]

Nobel material!
I called it...

[@adamantiumkruill]

Please Wake up , make profit or saving life

[@savvakerdemelidis5177]

Simply releasing the molecule into the public domain may do more harm by making it unpatentable. How can pharma companies recoup their $1 billion costs.

[@insertname5421]

Open source didnt kill the software industry, it wont kill the pharma industry. Will it require a business model revision? For sure. But it wont kill them. Time to change big pharmas :)