I don't follow. You're happy that work is being done, but unhappy that ... people are getting paid to work on it? Happy that the work is being done but unhappy that there are people doing the work? Or put differently, what would your ideal situation be here?

Cancer researchers collect public grant money at a public university, discover a therapy, found a private pharmaceutical company to bring hair growth to market, raise millions from tech, are now hair restoration entrepreneurs.

I'm not saying they don't have the right. I just said it's a bit of a shame to me.

The alternative is they capitalize on their IP (they already have provisional patents filed) and continue their work. Maybe they'll do both, who knows, but as many here know companies don't build themselves. Like I said, though, they don't necessarily owe the world anything else.