Jun 11, 2026 · 29 min · 10 segments
Guess what all the following have in common? They are all now available and widely used because of an important step lawmakers in Washington took over 45 years ago. Co-host Margaret Flinter says…
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You probably use Google to search for medical answers or you may not know about the life-saving benefits of certain cancer drugs.
Did you know these innovations became available because of over 40 years ago, Washington policymakers decided they had to make a big change to the law?
I am happy that there will be people who follow me in academia that can look to this act and, through the coalition, hear more about it because, quite frankly, up until maybe five, six years ago, if you had said Bayh-Dole coalition, I wouldn't have known 100% what we were talking about.
Joining us today to explain all of this is Joseph Allen, the Executive Director of the Bayh-Dole Coalition, and Robert Daniels, who earned his PhD in chemistry from Johns Hopkins and is a recipient of one of the Coalition's American Innovator Awards.
We were up on Capitol Hill and we had teams visiting different Capitol Hill staffers.
And Bob and I were on a team and Bob had just described to a staffer how his technology worked.
And out of nowhere, he said, I just realized this man pointing at Bob saved my father's life.
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You probably use Google to search for medical answers or you may not know about the life-saving benefits of certain cancer drugs.
Did you know these innovations became available because of over 40 years ago, Washington policymakers decided they had to make a big change to the law?
I am happy that there will be people who follow me in academia that can look to this act and, through the coalition, hear more about it because, quite frankly, up until maybe five, six years ago, if you had said Bayh-Dole coalition, I wouldn't have known 100% what we were talking about.
Joining us today to explain all of this is Joseph Allen, the Executive Director of the Bayh-Dole Coalition, and Robert Daniels, who earned his PhD in chemistry from Johns Hopkins and is a recipient of one of the Coalition's American Innovator Awards.
We were up on Capitol Hill and we had teams visiting different Capitol Hill staffers.
And Bob and I were on a team and Bob had just described to a staffer how his technology worked.
And out of nowhere, he said, I just realized this man pointing at Bob saved my father's life.