This is what the public sector is incredibly important for. If pharma got together, like the oil companies are getting together in Alberta to do the environmental stuff with no public sector involvement, who knows what industry would get up to? In these consortia, we're a registered charity. They give us a charity, there's a board of directors on which Genome Canada sits, and CHR, the Wellcome Trust in the United Kingdom, and we have governance rules that do not allow that to happen. So we set up a corporate structure that absolutely forbids it, and actually, pharmas are more willing to share than professors on many occasions.
On March 5th, 2013. See this statement in context.