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Will clinical trial data disclosure reduce incentives to develop new uses of drugs?

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Figure 1: Hypothetical simplified clinical trial data at different disclosure levels, modeled loosely on interferon-a2b.

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The authors wish to thank I. Glenn Cohen and the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School for support and advice.

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  1. W. Nicholson Price II is at the University of New Hampshire School of Law, Concord, New Hampshire, USA.,

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  2. Timo Minssen is at the Centre for Information and Innovation Law, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.,

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Price, W., Minssen, T. Will clinical trial data disclosure reduce incentives to develop new uses of drugs?. Nat Biotechnol 33, 685–686 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.3243

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