Comments are regarding conservation and stewardship requirements, matching payments, establishment costs and annual payments, disclosure of competitively sensitive information, invasiveness determination and review, consistency with existing FSA programs, corporations and publicly traded company participation, eligible materials, and algae.

The Small Business Early Stage Investment Program would provide matching funds for investment companies who invest in small, high tech companies, including biotech firm.

To establish a pilot program for educating district court judges on patent related issues.

The Cures Acceleration Network, passed in the recently enacted healthcare reform bill, will provide funding to public and private entities to bridge the gap between basic research and cures for patients.

Global Health Challenges: How Industry is Addressing Global Health

Government's role in developing solutions for diseases that disproportionately affect developing countries

Mark Rohrbaugh, Director, Office of Technology Transfer, National Institutes of Health (NIH), US Department of Health & Human Services, USA

Innovation And The Global Research Enterprise WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION GENEVA—NOVEMBER 2007 THEODORE J. ROUMEL VICE PRESIDENT for RESEARCH, INNOVATION AND COMMERCIALIZATION UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BIOTECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE

More than 430 organizations representing American innovation in a wide range of industries in all 50 states wrote Senate leaders to express continued concern with S. 1145.