Project Title: Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) in the pharmaceutical market and their impact on Research & Development and access to medicines

Supervisors: Dr Sotiris Vandoros, Dr Augustin De Coulon

Year of Entry: 2021, part-time

Aurelio Miracolo is a Doctoral Student at the King's Business School. He is interested in pharmaceutical policy and economics, and his doctoral research focuses on the Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) in the pharmaceutical market, and how they impact on access to medicines and research and development.

He also published a systematic literature review on the impact of sin taxes in Latin America on a leading peer-reviewed journal, and two LSE white papers related to predictive analytics techniques and big data in healthcare and access to personalised oncology in Europe.