Top news of the week: 09.12.2021.
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'We're getting there': LGBTQ+ progress in biotech lingers in the 'diagnose' stage
The biotech industry is "getting there" in terms of advancing LGBTQ+ inclusion, but it's an effort that remains in the early innings. Fierce Biotech spoke with more than 20 LGBTQ+ leaders ...
'Day job and a gay job': LGBTQ+ leaders in biopharma want those who look, talk and love like them to be seen and counted
Organizations for LGBTQ+ biopharma employees are popping up in Boston, San Francisco, New York, New Jersey, Dublin and elsewhere. Companies are also working to build up their internal ...
Always busy, Gary Glick recruits OrbiMed in a massive $218M Series A for enigmatic data science biotech
Gary Glick is back at it again, founding yet another biotech company. And by the sheer size of its first raise, this may be the biggest one yet. Glick has assembled what he calls an ...
Cyrus Biotechnology Announces $18M Financing and Acquisition of Orthogonal Biologics to Form an Integrated Software-Driven Pre-Clinical-Stage Drug Discovery Firm
Post-acquisition firm combines a proprietary software/AI biologics discovery platform with a massively-parallel protein screening capability, and a developing pipeline of pre-clinical and ...
World’s first passenger flight with 100% renewable fuel takes off—thanks to biotech
The first commercial passenger flight to use 100% sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) took off yesterday—possibly the biggest leap forward for modern aviation since the Wright brothers first ...
Little European biotech Sotio nabs a super $316M funding round for its superagonist work
In one of the biggest funding rounds for a European biotech ever, Czech Republic cancer company Sotio Biotech has grabbed a huge 280 million euro ($316 million) raise.
Common, Jamie Foxx among celebs standing up for clinical trials in star-studded cancer group's pandemic push
Healthcare screenings and clinical trial enrollment were battered by the pandemic. But the well-known celebrity-backed Stand Up To Cancer non-profit, along with pharma and advocacy ...
Ex-Immunomedics CFO charged with insider trading, faces up to 20 years in prison after allegedly tipping off girlfriend and relatives of a PhIII success
The former CFO of Immunomedics, who helped steer the company to its $21 billion buyout by Gilead last year, has been charged with insider trading, the Department of Justice announced ...