“We are under attack,” were the words Wisconsin Alumni Research Association Director Carl Gulbrandsen used to open his talk at the UW Law School Friday night.
Gulbrandsen spoke in grave terms about the prospect of losing the Bayh/Dole bill, legislation that enables the conversion of federally funded research into innovative scientific products and procedures. The speech was sponsored by the Kastenmeier Distinguished Lecture Series.
Gulbrandsen warned that many Bayh-Dole critics come from the ranks of academia. They want to remove Bayh/Dole’s protection for institutions like WARF which share the benefits of federally funded research to the benefit of the reseracher and the university.