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The 2018 BIO International Convention will be officially running from June 4 through June 7 and is celebrating 25 years of innovation.
Shares of CRISPR Therapeutics plunged dramatically Wednesday after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration placed a clinical hold on a planned sickle cell disease treatment the company was in the process of developing with Vertex Pharmaceuticals.
EIP Pharma, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, closed on a $20.5 million Series B financing. The round was led by Access Industries.
AstraZeneca and its biologics research-and-development arm, MedImmune, indicated that its Fasenra (benralizumab) did not meet its primary endpoint in patients with moderate to very severe COPD.
The Wilmington, Massachusetts-based contract research organization (CRO) Charles River Laboratories International extended its current collaboration with The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF).
Birmingham, Alabama resident Emily H. will be able to pursue her dream of studying elementary education ad Auburn University due in part to a $5,000 scholarship awarded by Vertex Pharmaceuticals.
The first quarter of 2018 for Vertex Pharmaceuticals was highlighted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s February approval of Symdeko, a combination treatment for cystic fibrosis.
Every year for the last 32 years, Enrst & Young has awarded entrepreneurs in various categories, including Life Science, Consumer Products and Retail, Distribution and Manufacturing and other categories. The awards are given in June. The finalists have been announced. Here’s a look at some of the finalists and semi-finalists.
The difference between the salaries paid to top executives and the median income earned by rank and file employees has been a sore subject for many years and has served as a wedge political issue in recent elections.
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