Welcome to University of Michigan UAEM

Universities Allied for Essential Medicines has a two-fold mission: (1) to determine how universities can help ensure that biomedical end products, such as drugs, are made more accessible in poor countries and (2) to increase the amount of research conducted on neglected diseases, or those diseases predominantly affecting people who are too poor to constitute a market attractive to private-sector R&D investment. In both cases, universities are well-placed to make a difference. University scientists are major contributors in the drug development pipeline. At the same time, universities have an avowed commitment to advancing the public good. As members of these universities, our fundamental goal is to hold them to this commitment.

Our Chapter Goals:

• Educate our peers and ourselves about the availability of essential medicines in developing countries
• Learn more about technology transfer policies on campus and work with the technology transfer office to ensure that patents established at this university included generic production exemptions for countries in need
• Work with infectious disease faculty to ensure that diseases which primarily affect developing countries are taught in the infectious disease sequence and that the need to research treatments for these diseases is emphasized
• Work with students from the law school, public health school, and public policy school to combine our unique skills to achieve our goals