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During the Q&A #drugdevelopmentinnovation after my panel I was told to be careful about throwing shade on the obvious nature of some pharma patents and to learn from the expert declarations that are submitted in litigation. I highlighted many of these experts are not independent.
Eg: Prof Valentino Stella is considered one the leaders in prodrugs, a technique that's been around for at least 40 years. He has been used by Gilead Sciences to provide expert statements for a number of their drugs that use the prodrug technique e.g Viread and recently Sovaldi.
To my point of independent experts in patent cases: can someone be independent when Gilead gives a gift of US$1 million to a professorship fund at The University of Kansas honouring their expert declarant Prof. Stella? bit.ly/2SK28wJ
