Is this NIH scientist funded by tax money, and if so, what does that mean for a future vaccine or drug? Will it still be patented, and if so, who will hold the patent?
There are 35 authors, some of whom are funded by the NIH. Here's the full funding acknowledgment statement:
Support for this work was provided by the Intramural Research Program and the Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), NIH. Use of sector 22 (Southeast Region Collaborative Access team) at the Advanced Photon Source was supported by the US Department of Energy, Basic Energy Sciences, Office of Science under contract number W-31-109-Eng-38.
Are you sure about that? Bayh-Dole covers inventions arising from extramural funding (i.e., the NIH provides a grant to people who are employed elsewhere).
I'm not sure how it applies here, where ~80% of the authors appear to be directly employed by some of the NIH's Institutes.
