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Some new drugs aren’t actually ‘new’ – pharmaceutical companies exploit patents and raise prices for patients, but data transparency can help protect innovation

When developing countries band together, lifesaving drugs become cheaper and easier to buy − with trade-offs

Marketing Authorization and Strategic Patenting: Evidence from Pharmaceuticals

Procurement Institutions and Essential Drug Supply in Low and Middle-Income Countries

A Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Medicines Patent Pool

Global drug diffusion and innovation with the medicines patent pool

The complementarity of drug monitoring programs and health IT for reducing opioid-related mortality and morbidity

Lucy Xiaolu Wang is an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, a faculty research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Germany, and a faculty associate at the Canadian Centre for Health Economics. Wang's research focuses on the economics of innovation & digitization in health care markets (national and global), particularly in the biopharmaceutical and digital health industries. She is a co-founder and inaugural convener for the Digital Health Technology special interest group at the International Health Economics Association, and currently serves as the inaugural program chair for the Innovation and Digitization program area at the American Society of Health Economists. Her projects have been funded by Cornell, CUFE, Duke, Institute for Humane Studies, Max Planck Institute, National Ministry of Education of China, RWJF and UMass, among others.

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UMass Health Economist Lucy Xiaolu Wang Finds Regulatory Transparency Curbs ‘Patent Gaming’ in Pharmaceuticals

Pooled Buying Can Reduce Costs of Life-Saving Drugs, But Planning is Key

Assistant Professor of Resource Economics

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