Compared with other US public-sector research institutions, the US National Institutes of Health has contributed inventions that have had a disproportionately greater impact on the overall number of products produced, drugs granted orphan status and drugs granted priority review.
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We thank H. Feindt (NIH Office of Technology Transfer) for helpful insights on commercial sales of products, J. Duberman (Informationalist, NIH Library) for his assistance in gaining access to publications and sources of data, the NIH Office of Budget for NIH extramural funding data and L. Pressman for her valuable insights.
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Chatterjee, S., Rohrbaugh, M. NIH inventions translate into drugs and biologics with high public health impact. Nat Biotechnol 32, 52–58 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.2785
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