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FiercePharmaAsia—Takeda-CSL coronavirus tie-up; Qiming’s $1B VC fund; Fujifilm’s Avigan COVID-19 trial

Takeda has formed a multinational alliance to work on an unbranded hyperimmune globulin therapy for COVID-19. China’s Qiming Venture Partners, which previously backed CanSino Bio and Zai Lab, has set up another venture fund. Following some encouraging early evidence and the initiation of a Japanese study, Fujifilm will test influenza med Avigan in a U.S.… Read More »

Blancco Technology Group and Partner Data Agility Group Announce Accelerated Growth of Erasure as a Service Sales Opportunities

Increasing focus on consumer data privacy and corporate social responsibility initiatives lead to higher demand for secure data sanitization Austin, TEXAS – April 9, 2020 – Blancco Technology Group (LON: BLTG), the industry standard in data erasure and mobile device diagnostics, today announced that due to its close partnership with Data Agility Group (DAG), which… Read More »

Calling Gilead’s CAR-T infringement ‘willful,’ judge enhances BMS’ award to $1.2B

In quick succession, Gilead Sciences has not only lost an early attempt to overturn a massive CAR-T patent infringement verdict, but now a judge has also ordered hundreds of millions of enhanced damages for plaintiff Bristol Myers Squibb.   Judge Philip Gutierrez in California expanded the total verdict to $ 1.2 billion from a prior… Read More »