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Best Training Methods for the Pharmaceutical Industry

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Pharmaceutical Industry today, is a goldmine of opportunities. The global pharmaceutical market was estimated at approximately $935 billion in 2017 and is bound to reach $1170 billion by 2021. And for a company to succeed, the people who make it, i.e., its employees, should be updated with all the recent developments.

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Tadataka Yamada, 1945-2021: Pioneer in drug development led global health at Gates Foundation

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Tadataka Yamada, a pioneer in drug and vaccine development who helped forge numerous biotech companies and spent six years at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as head of global health, died Wednesday morning of natural causes at his home in Seattle. Tadataka “Tachi” Yamada. Twitter Photo via @TachiYamada).

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Seattle Children’s spins out BrainChild Bio, a startup developing therapies for incurable brain cancers

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The startup has an exclusive license to use novel CAR T-cell technology developed by Jensen and his team. “With our clinical trials and our academic programs, we can treat and help dozens or tens of dozens of patients,” Jensen said. Steven Brugger will join BrainChild Bio as CEO.

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Tech Moves: UW announces director for new DoD program; Microsoft vet joins EQT; and more

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NSIN tapped Justin Dunnicliff as its university program director at the UW. He’ll be based at the CoMotion, the university’s innovation hub, and will run programs including Hacking for Defense and Starts. NSIN tapped Justin Dunnicliff as its university program director at the UW. The six-year old company raised $5.5

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The ‘Great Retraining’: IT upskills for the future

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The latest piece in her reinvention story is Synchrony’s new Tech Apprenticeship for Artificial Intelligence, a full-time, 12-month program that balances on-the-job learning with instructor-led training, providing Chavarin with a pathway into one of the most coveted technology spaces despite her very nontraditional IT background.

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Tech Moves: Nordstrom names chief information security officer; Meta research scientist joins AI2

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Ford previously served as vice president and CISO at Rockwell Automation, with past experience leading security transformation initiatives and developing cybersecurity programs. Impel Pharmaceuticals CFO Michael Kalb is stepping down at the end of this year. Adrian Adams , Impel’s former CEO, resigned last month.

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Univ. of Wash.-spinout Icosavax raises $100M to fund vaccine development technology

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The company launched its COVID program in October, supported in part by $10 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Simpson was formerly the CEO of PvP Biologics, another IPD spinout, which he oversaw from the company’s launch through its sale to the pharmaceutical company Takeda.