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Zogenix Puts Focus On Safety In Seizure Patients By Ed Miseta, Chief Editor, Clinical Leader Follow Me On Twitter @EdClinical Zogenix has been part of the drug development industry for about 12 years. The public company, located just across the Bay Bridge from San Francisco, has now been through a couple of iterations. It started out as a pain treatment company but quickly realized that was not an area where it could make a transformational difference in patients lives. In 2015, after a few yea...

We Need To Expand How We Value Companies Source: Life Science Leader Follow Me On Twitter @RfwrightLSL Sanjeev Redkar, Ph.D., cofounder and president, Apollomics. During an interview for an upcoming feature in Life Science Leader, Sanjeev Redkar, Ph.D., cofounder and president of Apollomics (a biopharmaceutical company discovering and developing oncology treatments), discussed the topic of an exit strategy. “Are you looking to exit or leave a legacy?” I queried. “To build something,” ...

Pak risks FATF blacklisting as it continues to abate terrorism: Report ANI | Updated: Jan 22, 2021 07:43 IST Islamabad [Pakistan], January 22 (ANI): Pakistan might be pushed into the Financial Action Task Forces (FATF) black list next month as it continues to finance and tolerate terrorist organisations, Greek City Times reported.  Terrorist organisations, such as Jamaar-ud-Dawa (JuD) and Jaish-e-Muhammed (JeM), continue to operate with impunity in Pakista...

Pakistan Faces Risk of Being Added to FATF ‘Black List’: Report Pakistan might be pushed into the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) “black list” next month as it continues to finance and tolerate terrorist organizations and their activities despite the October 2020 warning, Greek City Times reported. The report says that terrorist organizations, such as Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) and Jaish-e-Muhammed (JeM), continue to operate with impunity in Pakistan. The FATF grey list is a list of coun...

Terrorist organisations, such as Jamaar-ud-Dawa (JuD) and Jaish-e-Muhammed (JeM), continue to operate with impunity in Pakistan. The FATF blacklist is a list of countries that the intra-governmental organisation considers non-cooperative in the global effort to combat money laundering and the financing of terrorism. The global watchdog will consider Pakistan greylist status, meant for countries "under increased monitoring" during a meeting next month. The country was placed on the grey-list i...

Pakistan continues to turn a blind eye to terrorism financing despite FATF’s February deadline Sun Online Desk 22nd January, 2021 05:39:16 It is expected that Pakistan will remain on the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) grey list during next month’s Plenary to assess the country’s progress in curbing the financing of terrorist organisations. FATF president Marcus Pleyer said during October’s review that there were “very serious deficiencies” in Pakistan’s efforts to counter terr...

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It is expected that Pakistan will remain on the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) grey list during next month’s Plenary to assess the country’s progress in curbing the financing of terrorist organisations. FATF president Marcus Pleyer said during October’s review that there were “very serious deficiencies” in Pakistan’s efforts to counter terrorist financing and gave the country until the February 19-21 Plenary to resolve these issues as they cannot wait “forever.” “As long a...

Is AI Improving Outcomes In Clinical Trials? By Ed Miseta, Chief Editor, Clinical Leader Follow Me On Twitter @EdClinical In October 2020, I hosted a webinar on the topic of AI and how it will improve outcomes in clinical trials. Our panel featured: Jennifer Goldsack, executive director at the Digital Medicine Society (DiMe) Nechama Katan, director, data science lead at Pfizer Alex Zhavoronkov, founder and CEO of Insilico Medicine Elvin Thalund, director of industry strategy at Oracle Health Sc...

1. The McMahon-Hussain Correspondence To properly understand the events that led to the creation of both Israel and Saudi Arabia, we must travel back to the early 1900s’ Middle East. At the outbreak of WWI in the region, Sir Henry McMahon, then British High Commissioner in Egypt, offered Hussain bin Ali, Sharif of Hijaz (or ruler of the Hijaz – the western Arabian region in which Mecca and Medina lie), an independent Arab state if he would help the British fight against the Ottoman Emp...