01489nas a2200169   4500000000100000008004100001260001700042653003200059653001500091653002200106100001500128245013300143250000800276856006000284300000900344520096600353       2016                            d  bWIPOaGeneva10aNeglected Tropical Diseases10aInnovation10aBuilding capacity1 aJedrusik A00aSharing innovation and building capacity to fight neglected tropical diseases: A selection of WIPO Re:Search fellowship stories.  a1st  uhttp://www.wipo.int/edocs/pubdocs/en/wipo_pub_gc_11.pdf  a1-323 a<p>Four years after the creation of WIPO Re:Search, a consortium launched by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and BIO Ventures for Global Health (BVGH) as well as pharmaceutical companies and public sector research institutions, the initiative is thriving and has been making substantial progress in contributing to the global efforts to fight neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), malaria, and tuberculosis (TB). To date, over a hundred research collaboration agreements under WIPO Re:Search have been facilitated by BVGH. And, thanks to sponsorship by the Government of Australia, a fellowship program was started in 2013 that enables developing country scientists to spend one to 12 months in corporate and university research and development (R&amp;D) labs. This Report documents the experiences of the six scientists who participated in the fellowship program, which was renewed with a doubling of resources for the period 2016-2018.</p>