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Career Advice

6 Easy Resume Updates You Should Make ASAP

Whether or not you’re actively looking for a new job, it’s always prudent to regularly do a resume update, refresh, and in general keep optimizing your resume.

May 9, 2018

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Drug Development

Five Biopharma Stocks to Watch for Recovery or Continued Growth

The stock market has been volatile so far this year, and biotech stocks are right there in the middle of things. Still, there are a few stocks that have taken a beating but will probably recover, and others that appear to be on their way up with every indication of continuing.

May 9, 2018

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Mark Terry

Deals

Are Older Billionaires Funding Biotechs Focused on Longevity?

It has been noted that a number of billionaires—at least six—who are fifty years or older in age, have been investing in health care and longevity-related startup companies.

May 9, 2018

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Mark Terry

Network Technology Cooperation and Transaction

Business

Lodo Therapeutics and Genentech Ink Strategic Collaboration Potentially Worth $1 Billion or More

Lodo Therapeutics, based in New York, formed a strategic drug discovery collaboration with Genentech, a Roche company, in a deal potentially worth more than $1 billion.

May 9, 2018

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Mark Terry

Business

Regeneron Talent Search Doles Out $1.8 Million in Awards to High School Scientists

Training the next generation of scientists is a key for the future of the biotech industry and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals is taking a lead in that responsibility through its sponsorship of the Regeneron Science Talent Search.

May 9, 2018

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Alex Keown

Drug Development

Company that Develops High-Quality Prescription Medical Video Games, Akili Interactive, Raises $55M

Akili Interactive, headquartered in Boston, closed a $55 million Series C financing. Akili is a prescription digital medicine company. Its goal is to treat certain disorders via high-quality video games.

May 9, 2018

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Mark Terry

Pharm Country

UPDATED: Novartis Reveals it Paid President Trump’s Attorney $1.2 Million for Healthcare Consulting Services

Novartis paid far more than $400,000 to President Donald Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen -- $800,000 more, the company revealed in a statement issued late Wednesday.

May 9, 2018

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Alex Keown

Drug Development

Lipocine Craters After FDA Rejects Testosterone Replacement Therapy Drug for the Second Time

Shares of Utah-based Lipocine, Inc. are down more than 41 percent in premarket trading after the company announced it received a second Complete Response Letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its testosterone replacement therapy product.

May 9, 2018

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Alex Keown

Business

Opioid Distributors on Congressional Hot Seat Over Addiction Crisis

Sitting before a Congressional panel Tuesday the heads of pharmaceutical distributing companies said their mea culpas over not doing more to limit the flow of prescription opioids to certain parts of the country.

May 9, 2018

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Alex Keown

Business

Escient Pharmaceuticals Launches with $40 Million

Escient Pharmaceuticals launched in San Diego with a Series A financing round worth $40 million. The round was syndicated by The Column Group and 5AM Ventures, and joined by Osage University Partners.

May 9, 2018

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Mark Terry