Doctoral Dissertation Research: Pharmaceutical Bioprospecting for Genetic Resources in Postapartheid South Africa

博士论文研究：南非种族隔离后遗传资源的药物生物勘探

• 批准号: 1024419
• 负责人: Donna Goldstein
• 金额: $ 1.09万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-01 至 2012-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1024419&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Pharmaceutical; Bioprospecting

The researcher investigates how intellectual property laws construct notions of ownership of genetic resources and how these laws impact the local approach to negotiating regulatory governance occurring at the national and transnational level. The project uses the example of a court decision awarding patents to a German pharmaceutical company for the exclusive use of a South African plant, which is an essential element in the production of specific drugs. It examines how various stakeholders wield specific practices and forms of knowledge in order to favorably transform current circumstances to fit or contest existing intellectual property laws. This project, which lies at the intersection of multiple fields -- cultural anthropology; economic geography; socio-legal studies; and, science and technology studies -- offers the opportunity for opening up new theoretical and methodological avenues of research on intellectual property and governance.

研究人员调查了知识产权法如何构建遗传资源所有权的概念，以及这些法律如何影响在国家和跨国层面进行监管治理谈判的地方方法。该项目以法院判决向一家德国制药公司授予独家使用南非植物的专利为例，该植物是生产特定药物的基本要素。它研究了不同的利益相关者如何运用具体的实践和知识形式，以便有利地改变当前的情况，以适应或质疑现有的知识产权法。这个项目位于多个领域的交叉点——文化人类学；经济地理；社会法律研究；科学和技术研究为知识产权和治理研究开辟新的理论和方法论途径提供了机会。