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In his resignation letter, William Hahn of Dana-Farber says he's "troubled" by the CPRIT request to reconsider scores for commercialization proposals without offering new information "to strengthen what were wholly naïve and underdeveloped applications.
The chair of CPRIT's commercialization review committee, Robert Ulrich, also discussed the fact that the MD Anderson applicants whose proposal was submitted, reviewed, and approved over 18 days did not give an in-person presentation to reviewers, as is usually done with commercialization proposals.
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The SBIR/STTR programme's main push is to transform scientific discovery into social benefits and to emphasize private sector commercialization, so proposals must identify the beneficiaries of the technology and its potential for commercialisation.
Applicants to ATP were required to provide a path to commercialization in their proposals.
CPRIT's chief scientific officer, Nobelist Alfred Gilman, announced his resignation in May, arguing that the work of the MD Anderson center was research, not commercialization, and the proposal should have gone through a scientific review.
Depending on how soon MD Anderson resubmits its proposal, the commercialization review council could make a decision before the CPRIT board's next meeting in July.
CPRIT officials have said that is because the proposal focused on commercialization, not scientific research.
This study, however, is the first to show another reason: biases on the part of technology licensing officers, who were found to be less likely to recommend identical proposals for patenting and commercialization.
Yesterday, however, CPRIT Executive Director William Gimson said in a statement: "The re-review of the IACS [ Institute for Applied Cancer Science proposal will entail a joint scientific and commercialization review".
The letter also states that in keeping with the incubator Request for Applications RFAapprovedved last year by the CPRIT board, the proposal will be reviewed by CPRIT's commercialization review council.
Possible explanations for this include: The frequent proposals of new biomarkers and assays which have complicated the translation and commercialization processes [ 9].
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