Nature 408, 6 (02 November 2000), News
Kenyans protest at being left off AIDS patent
WACHIRA KIGOTHO
[NAIROBI] The terms of a collaboration on a potential HIV vaccine,
between a British research team and the University of Nairobi, are to
be revised after the Kenyan scientists complained that their names had
been excluded from a patent application on the vaccine.
The original patent on the subtype A DNA candidate vaccine was filed
last year by the UK Medical Research Council in the names of Andrew
McMichael and Tomas Hanke, of Oxford University’s Institute of
Molecular Medicine.