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Michael J. Malinowski

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Globalization Of Biotechnology And The Public Health Challenges Accompanying It, Michael J. Malinowski Apr 2014

Globalization Of Biotechnology And The Public Health Challenges Accompanying It, Michael J. Malinowski

Michael J. Malinowski

No abstract provided.


Commercialization Of Genetic Testing Services: The Fda, Market Forces, And Biological Tarot Cards, Michael J. Malinowski, Robin J.R. Blatt Apr 2014

Commercialization Of Genetic Testing Services: The Fda, Market Forces, And Biological Tarot Cards, Michael J. Malinowski, Robin J.R. Blatt

Michael J. Malinowski

No abstract provided.


Drug Development--Stuck In A State Of Puberty?: Regulatory Reform Of Human Clinical Research To Raise Responsiveness To The Reality Of Human Variability, Michael J. Malinowski Oct 2013

Drug Development--Stuck In A State Of Puberty?: Regulatory Reform Of Human Clinical Research To Raise Responsiveness To The Reality Of Human Variability, Michael J. Malinowski

Michael J. Malinowski

Scathing critiques of the Food and Drug Administration's (“FDA”) performance by the Government Accountability Office and Institutes of Medicine, a plummet in innovative new drug approvals in spite of significant annual investment increases in biopharmaceutical research and development (“R&D”), and market controversies such as the painkiller Vioxx and the diabetes drug Avandia (both associated with significantly escalated risks of heart attacks and strokes) have raised doubts about the sufficiency of FDA *364 regulation. This Article questions how prescription medicines reach the market and proposes law-policy reforms to enhance the FDA's science standard for human clinical trials and new drug approvals. …


Government Rx--Back To The Future In Science Funding? The Next Era In Drug Development, Michael J. Malinowski May 2013

Government Rx--Back To The Future In Science Funding? The Next Era In Drug Development, Michael J. Malinowski

Michael J. Malinowski

The roles of government, industry, and academia in science research have been recast repeatedly since the U.S. began infusing tremendous funding during WWII. Recently, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) proposed a billion-dollar center to intervene in commercial drug development with the objective of lifting it out of a frightening fifteen-year slump in productivity. This article questions the role of the U.S. government in pharmaceutical development after completion of a map of the human genome (the touchstone of the Human Genome Project, HGP), a research undertaking spearheaded by the U.S. Government that spanned more than a decade. Specifically, the article …