New research by Pierre Azoulay, Danielle Li, Bhaven Sampat and me. Earlier this year, the President’s budget proposed a 40% cut to the budget of the NIH. This motivated us to ask: what if the NIH had been 40% smaller?

Cool new research digs into 💉 purchasing contracts that pharma negotiated with South Africa Here's what they found: @hji-sa.bsky.social‬ @abinader.bsky.social‬ @matthewkavanagh.bsky.social‬

BREAKING: Tesla was just hit with a $329 million verdict in a trial over a fatal crash that a Miami jury found was caused by Tesla's defective autopilot.

Can voluntary deals ensure equitable vaccine access in a pandemic? Our new research w @hji-sa.bsky.social on South Africa’s COVID-19 negotiations shows no. Major policy made via private contract. Implications for global governance... 🧵 doi.org/10.1080/1744... @abinader.bsky.social

Another new #NIH Notice published today. In addition to the AI information referenced below, NIH is also instituting a new policy limiting the number of applications that NIH will consider per Principal Investigator per calendar year. It's included in this Notice. #RAdminsky #Research #Medsky

NIH issues new policy stating that it will not consider research grant applications “substantially developed” by AI to be original ideas of the applicant. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

The co-founder of Palantir is backing a construction automation startup seeking to build AI powered heavy machinery that doesn't require workers. The company, Bedrock Robotics, was founded by three people who used to work at Waymo. www.benzinga.com/markets/tech...

Article by @abinader.bsky.social on the efforts to address late disclosures of federal funding in US patents. academic.oup.com/jlb/article/...

Now open access on FirstView: "Global Legal Environment for LGBTQ+ Sexuality and Public Health" by ‪@matthewkavanagh.bsky.social, @abinader.bsky.social, @sharonannlynch.bsky.social and team. The article analyzes politically and legally viable pathways to decriminalization. #LGBTHealth #HIV #LGBTQIA

Earlier, 2023, memorandum to HHS on measures to include data on the costs of trials in ClinicalTrials.Gov www.keionline.org/40783

That's not to say that pharma won't try to - as ever - keep prices secret. Monthly re-upping of one of my top 5 favourite papers ever by @cmorten.bsky.social on why trade secret protections are often more vibes than actual law : papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4041556 7/8

We just posted a major new study of AI models and books, showing that some (but not all) models memorize large portions of some (but not all) books after training on the books3 database With A. Feder Cooper and Amy Cyphert, among others arxiv.org/pdf/2505.12546

Patent post expiry royalties return to SCOTUS. Blog by @denniscrouch.bsky.social with link to the Atrium Medical cert petition: patentlyo.com/patent/2025/...

Now on FirstView: "Law and Global Governance of Infectious Disease: Access to Medicines on COVID-19, AIDS, and Beyond" by @matthewkavanagh.bsky.social, @abinader.bsky.social, Fatima Hassan, and Eric Friedman. #COVID #AIDS #HealthLaw www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The Trump administration's push to dismantle #USAID undermines U.S. foreign policy & global health, argued @matthewkavanagh.bsky.social and @abinader.bsky.social. "This is neither good policy nor legal under the most basic elements of U.S. law and the Constitution.” foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/04/u...

NIH is ending billions of dollars in foreign subawards, jeopardizing thousands of projects on infectious diseases, cancer and more. Unless foreign researchers secure funding directly from NIH by October — a tall order for any researcher — clinical trials abroad and other research will shut down.

Out today in @jama.com, a joint warning from AEREO, @weareprimr.bsky.social, @aahrpp.bsky.social, and CARE-Q, about how capped indirects and decimation of OHRP risk slowing research and making participants less safe. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

My panel with @daniel-solove.bsky.social, @mariotrujillo.bsky.social, and @alexreevegivens.bsky.social on DOGE, the Privacy Act, and how to protect privacy in our new authoritarian regime can be viewed here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6eQ...

ICE is detaining US citizens despite proof of citizenship and despite the law being enjoined already www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...

Brilliant essay on the perils of mass layoffs at federal agencies’ FOIA offices, by my friend and frequent collaborator @reshmagar.bsky.social:

This article, along with many others currently available in FirstView, will be in our upcoming issue "Research Integrity and Misconduct."

🚨🚨 Just out - a letter from almost 900 Yale profs to our leaders, urging them to stand with us to defend the values of higher ed - and to resist and legally challenge any unlawful demands: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F.... Please share!

Was great to have my colleagues Alice Kayongo and @abinader.bsky.social and visitor Michael Aboneka in our class on policy analysis for @guglobalhealth.bsky.social focused on advocacy strategies. Thank you!!

Unbelievably this mother managed to remain calm for her children in the face of heinous cruelty. And the bravery of the filmmaker! It’s clear who the criminals are.

🚨Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump regime. They have created this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely.

The ongoing denigration of expertise, science, and the research enterprise will have both short- and long-term costs for human health and lives

While Big Law cowers in fear of Trump, boutique firms are stepping up to condemn his unprecedented attack on the rule of law. Here is Lex Lumina's statement www.lex-lumina.com/newsroom/lex...

In case it wasn’t clear where we stand. We stand for the rule of law. As every lawyer must.

In the wake of the recent USPTO discretionary denial guidance, thought it was worth going back to this article from Alex Moss and Timi Iwayemi. Corruption from top to bottom. prospect.org/power/trumps...

www.theatlantic.com/health/archi... “Why are people going to be willing to contribute to science and enroll in these studies if they feel like the rug can be pulled out from under them at any time?” Fernandez Lynch told me. Answer: They won't.

Reuters: "The United States has paused contributions to the World Trade Organization, three trade sources told Reuters, as U.S. President Donald Trump's administration ramps up efforts to cut government spending." @emmafarge.bsky.social

We polled Nature readers to ask if they were thinking of leaving the US for jobs abroad. Three-quarters of them (who said they were US-based scientists) said yes. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Today, #GeorgetownLaw Dean William M. Treanor joined 79 law school deans in signing the letter posted below, issued March 26, 2025. [ Those signing are expressing their personal views and are not speaking for their institutions. Find the full letter and list of signatories: bit.ly/4hSna6u ]

The guidance also says that grants about South Africa and climate change should be terminated. It also outlines a new category of research to be cancelled: any project the NIH director or HHS deems unworthy. Also, starting Oct 1, terminations for "agency priorities" will no longer be appealable.

In Health Affairs, Andrew Twinamatsiko highlights how the Trump admin’s funding freeze and #NIH grant cuts jeopardize health care, research, and essential services—sowing confusion on the future of the nation’s health infrastructure. www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...

JUST FILED: our new suit challenging the Trump administration's policy of deporting faculty and students for engaging in pro-Palestinian speech. Filed on behalf of @aaup.bsky.social, @mesa1966.bsky.social, and AAUP's NYU, Harvard, and Mass. chapters. knightcolumbia.org/content/aaup...

Net prices for medicines inched up in last year’s fourth quarter after falling a year ago, analysis finds.. statnews.com/pharmalot/20... #pharma #biotech #medicines #prices #wholesale #Medicare #biosimilars #IRA

BREAKING: We are suing the Trump admin on behalf of our members for unlawfully cutting off $400 million in federal funding for crucial public health research to force Columbia University to surrender its academic independence. Stay Tuned.

Roundtable this Wed at the US Senate, on how Trump and Musk are killing research like cancer and Alzheimer’s research. 2:30pm Eastern. There is a livestream. This would be better in primetime and produced for TV, like the Jan 6 Committee did. But it’s a good start from @baldwin.senate.gov.

"If we don’t resist collectively by all legal means, and by social influence and legislative pressure, we are apt to see the destruction of our most revered institutions and the enormous benefits they accrue to America."

Stanford Law School Professor Mark Lemley was quoted by @reuters.com in "Trump's orders targeting law firms raise constitutional concerns, experts say." Read more here: www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

College acceptances are rolling out right now and historically a significant percentage of university communities are international students. The question is whether they will come. (Many international students matriculate assuming they can go home over the holidays etc.)

The puzzle of biologics manufacturing platform patents - @dukelaw.bsky.social go.nature.com/3Y0W45Q

Funny how things change. Here's Ford's CEO on how American car companies can compete with China's growing dominance in EVs: “The way we compete with them is to get access to their IP just the way they needed ours 20 years ago"

Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine will work with the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) to embed access plans in licensing agreements for early-stage medical technology. This is the most recent out of various commitments that the MPP has secured from licensors and funders of early-stage technologies.