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Merck Life Sciences banks on RPA to streamline regulatory compliance

CIO Business Intelligence

The pharmaceutical industry is a highly regulated one, especially for multinationals doing business across the globe. Merck Life Sciences, a leading chemical and pharmaceutical company, with 60,000 employees working across 66 countries, was one of them. Dependency on human resources is both time-consuming and fraught with errors.

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

GeekWire

Icosavax creates virus-like particles with technology licensed from the University of Washington’s Institute for Protein Design. 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. Icosavax Photo).

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Alpine Immune Sciences stock rises after biotech firm lands $60M from AbbVie for lupus drug

GeekWire

Alpine Immune Sciences stock rose more than 10% Friday after the Seattle-based biotech company inked a $60 million licensing deal with pharmaceutical giant AbbVie for its lupus drug. million Americans.

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Tech Moves: Top Blue Origin engineer joins SpaceX; Axon hires HTC Vive exec; Porch adds to board

GeekWire

Eby has been succeeded by Morgan Hellar who originally joined WRF in 2004 as a license administrator for the organization’s patent portfolio. Portland-based Sparrow Pharmaceuticals appointed Frank Czerwiec as chief medical officer and Jamie MacPherson as VP of regulatory affairs and quality. Saty Bahadur. Upwork Photo).

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Get the scoop on the Mars Society’s plan to establish a tech institute, maybe in Seattle

GeekWire

” The Mars Technology Institute would focus on three tech frontiers: Biotech innovations that could maximize the prospects for producing food, pharmaceuticals and other supplies using Martian resources. . “What is needed is an institution devoted to developing the technologies that will allow us to live once we are there.”

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Ireland’s status as tax haven for tech firms like Google, Facebook, and Apple is ending

The Verge

This is a major shift for the country that is the European headquarters for many large US pharmaceutical companies, as well as tech firms, including Google, Apple, and Facebook. Companies typically create Irish subsidiaries of their companies that license their intellectual property, on which the subsidiary pays royalties.

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

GeekWire

The startup has an exclusive license to use novel CAR T-cell technology developed by Jensen and his team. His experience in pharmaceuticals spans 40 years, most recently as CEO of Affinivax, a vaccine company acquired last year by GSK for $3.3 Steven Brugger will join BrainChild Bio as CEO.