Bernard Chao

HHS's Office of Long COVID Research and Practice has been DOGEd. Closing this week.

Scholars stranded in America and abroad amid funding freeze of State Department programs The U.S. State Department has frozen funding indefinitely for thousands of scholars participating in long-established cross-cultural programs connecting the U.S. to other parts of the world.

I understand that the administration can probably stop granting Fulbrights, but why doesn't pulling Fulbrights result in a breach of Contract or promissory estoppel claim? apnews.com/article/fulb...

The Next War Against Trans People Is Already Being Waged in Texas The Lone Star State’s legal attacks on gender-affirming care hold major consequences for 2025—and beyond.

Proud that Zane McNeil (3L) took a directed research project and published this. newrepublic.com/article/1884...

Clearing Dense Drug-Patent Thickets | NEJM Proposed reforms from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and Congress could work in tandem to prevent patent thickets by targeting strategies that impede market entry of generic and biosimilar drugs...

New paper on the hypothetical effects of proposed patent reforms on "Clearing Dense Drug-Patent Thickets" in NEJM with Bernard Chao, Aaron Kesselheim, and S. Sean Tu. @wsurferesq.bsky.social
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