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Seagen vets land $4.4M for Univ. of Washington spinout using fresh approach for cancer vaccines

GeekWire

The net effect is, ideally, an immune onslaught against the tumor. government as well as grants from UW’s CoMotion and Washington state’s Life Sciences Discovery Fund. “We Abacus’ approach is to attach a tumor antigen to an antibody fragment that recognizes a molecule, called CD180, on key immune cells.

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The major blind spot in Bill Gates’s pandemic prevention plan

Vox

Pharmaceutical companies raked in record profits from Covid-19 drugs and vaccines; tech stocks boomed , and the number of billionaires around the world shot up by 30 percent. It doesn’t have to answer to the public the way government spending does , which is why critics have long criticized it for being undemocratic.

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Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson: IBM Debate Series - What's.

Cloud Musings

Personal comments and insight on cloud computing related technologies and their use in the public sector to support net-centric operations. GovCloud: Cloud Computing for the Business of Government. Demystifying PaaS for Federal Government. Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Cloud Musings on Forbes. NJVC Cloud Computing. GovCloud Daily.

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5 recommendations for successfully implementing distributed innovation and shared value

Trends in the Living Networks

Pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly established InnoCentive LLP in order to tap outside talent in its research and development initiatives. Today, many government organizations that issue tenders for consulting work specify that any intellectual property generated in the engagement is owned by the client. Take it or leave it.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Industrial Control Systems

ForAllSecure

So it wasn't this story that we hear sometimes thrown around about Lightspeed net speed cyberattacks, you know it was human adversaries doing research on the environment, so the attack starts. Let's talk a little bit about the government side of things. So your pharmaceutical plants have clean rooms. When they did that.

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How important is culture for a Digital Transformation?

Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

Governance > ( HBR.com , Jan 2019) Leaders are there to provide the teams with what they need to perform, rather than telling them what to do. Motivations Every organisations will have ambitious strategic goals (such as achieving a Net Zero Carbon emission by 2050 for instance). They are guides rather than commanders.

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How important is Culture for a Digital Transformation?

Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

Governance > ( HBR.com , Jan 2019) Leaders are there to provide the teams with what they need to perform, rather than telling them what to do. Motivations Every organisations will have ambitious strategic goals (such as achieving a Net Zero Carbon emission by 2050 for instance). They are guides rather than commanders.

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