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Re: UW/top ten in licensing income



Brief Comment on the issue of WARF;
WARF really got  its start from the work of Karl Paul Link a native
american. He discovered the coumarin anticoagulants and the warfarin rat
poison. He was Professor of Biochemistry and he had a lively and
Bohemian laboratory. I took his course in natural product chemistry
about 1955. As I recollect from his lectures  his outlook was not
exactly what the WARF foundation describes. He used to feud a lot with
the stuffed shirts and his association with WARF and the money he
generated meant that the stuffed shirts could not get rid of him. Even
powerful wisconsin senator joe Mcarthey could not get him fired, even
though he tried. He mentored  Prof. Bob Burris  who headed the national
academy committee that gave the go ahead  to GM crops and assured
everyone that canola would not spread GM pollen. KP Link died  a few
years after the invention of gene cloning and transgenic  organisms but
I am pretty sure he would have stood up for organic food as that was the
philosophy of his lectures. Sincerely, Prof. Joe Cummins

Misha Gale-Sinex wrote:

Howdy, all--

Heidi asked, regarding the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation:

I'd be interested to know what products they are talking about. Does
anybody have that information?
Heide


Here is their Web site:
http://www.warf.ws/

Here is a super-brief "history of WARF" page, focusing mostly on
high-tech medical developments:
http://www.warf.ws/aboutus/index.jsp?catid=39&subcatid=27

My guess is that this site is designed to appeal to upscale alumni,
faculty, and others, who might want to leave WARF money in their
wills, as well as "industry" investors looking for a hot product for
richer consumers, or something that can be plugged into existing
industrial sectors.

WARF appears to be proud of privatizing the public sector:
http://www.warf.ws/aboutus/index.jsp?catid=39&subcatid=28

Heidi, go to the page on the site called "For industry: available
technologies":
http://www.warf.org/forindustry/accessible_techtree.jsp?area=2

As you click on each category, it will expand, and you can examine
the various technologies available. Some of them, like improved lines
of winter wheat, are not designed for commercial use. Others, like
the bioengineered sweetness protein from brazzein, are.

If your interest is Ag, click on that category.

The summaries of each technology indicate, for instance, the status
of the patent,  whether PVP Protection has been applied for, etc. For
the general reader, it's often very hard to tell from the "product"
briefs whether the food technology in question involves classical
breeding or biotechnology.


peace
mish

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