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Research Professor, Johns Hopkins University
Bhaven Sampat is a Research Professor at Johns Hopkins University, with faculty appointments at the new School of Government and Policy and the Carey Business School, and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). His research focuses on the economics and political economy of innovation and innovation policy. Among other topics, he has studied US and global life science patent policy, the politics and economics of publicly funded science, the roles of the government in pharmaceutical innovation, and the economic history of the US biomedical research enterprise. Sampat was formerly an assistant, associate, and full professor at the Department of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health.
