Progress, Potential, and Possibilities Podcast / Show Savva Kerdemelidis - Founder & CEO - Crowd Funded Cures - Curing Patients Without Patents
Savva Kerdemelidis is Founder & CEO of Crowd Funded Cures ( https://crowdfundedcures.org/ ), an organization with a mission to incentivize clinical trials for off-patent therapies that are otherwise ignored because a monopoly price cannot be enforced with patents. Savva is a Commercial/IP Consultant Legal Counsel and Patent Attorney with 18+ years experience advising in relation to IP, commercial law and crypto. Savva graduated with a LLM (1:1, Hons) and BSc (2:1, Hons) from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He is admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand and lawyer in the Supreme Court of Queensland, Australia. He also is a New Zealand and Australian Patent and Trade Mark Attorney. Savva conducted his LLM thesis in 2014 on alternatives to the patent system for developing medicines in a thesis entitled: Deadly gaps in the patent system : an analysis of current and alternative mechanisms for incentivizing development of medical therapies ( https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/handle/10092/9826 ). Savva founded Crowd Funded Cures as a NZ charity in 2013 to implement the idea of using pay-for-success contracts as an incentive to find new uses for off-patent drugs and other un-monopolizable therapies.