Biotech news
Africa
A lack of blood donors and poor healthcare infrastructure inspired Temie Giwa-Tubosun to develop and deliver a life-saving app. LSIPR spoke to the founder of LifeBank. 10 July 2018
Asia-Pacific
France-based Sanofi has announced plans to launch a research and development hub in China to focus on digitalisation and big data analysis. 5 July 2018
Americas
A former employee of chemical company DuPont has been charged with stealing trade secrets related to DuPont’s ethanol fuel enzyme business. 5 July 2018
Americas
Balancing a company’s duty to shareholders with the public responsibility to provide lifesaving treatments is a constant challenge, as Issi Rozen, chief business officer at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, tells LSIPR. 4 July 2018
Pharma
Novartis has created a platform called Nerve Live that will tap into its “huge data pool” in order to aid drug development. 3 July 2018
Americas
Holland & Hart has added Loren Hulse as a partner to the firm’s Salt Lake City office. 2 July 2018
Pharma
Mathys & Squire has added Peter Arch and Craig Titmus to the firm’s partnership. 29 June 2018
Americas
The US is leading the way in synthetic biology patent filings, according to a report released earlier this month from patent search software company PatSnap. 28 June 2018
Americas
The US Patent and Trademark Office has granted ERS Genomics its first US patent covering the use of CRISPR/Cas9 technology for gene editing. 20 June 2018
Americas
Switzerland-based Roche has agreed to pay $2.4 billion to acquire the remainder of Foundation Medicine, a molecular and genomic analysis company headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 20 June 2018