Who "owns" the results? What will happen to them?
Will the results be sold (making profit) ?

"Licensing the results

Baker said the most promising discoveries are licensed to private companies to carry on the research and find out if the proteins really do what researchers thought they would do. "We do simple things, then license the results to a pharmaceutical company," he said."

http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2019068219_molecularlab05m.html


Does that mean that I will be contributing to a project and in the end the data/results will be licensed to a certain pharmaceutical company and will NOT be available for everyone and will NOT be published in scientific journals ?

I believe the responses by Dr. Baker in this thread address your question.

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Rosetta Moderator: Mod.Sense

The fact is that it requires huge amounts of investment to get drugs from design through testing, approval and manufacturing, and the only way to get them there is to provide the pharmaceutical companies with the potential of profit as an incentive. The alternative is that the drugs never get past the design stage. If the Bakerlab license the results then they retain some control which is the best position possible in the real world.

I don't know about publishing the designs in journals, but there's an impressive list of journal entries from the Bakerlab available here:
http://depts.washington.edu/bakerpg/drupal/biblio

Danny

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