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A career in technology transfer requires skills in multitasking, communicating, and negotiating; one reward is seeing scientific advances benefit society.

Don't expect Big Pharma companies to stop developing new treatments for the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19). Not when they can turn a $17.74 manufacturing price into $712 selling price. [...]

Toggle open close The second decade of the 21st century was bookended by two great crises—the Great Recession and the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to the colossal impact these events have had on our daily lives, they resulted in massive increases in government power and spending. During the Great Recession, Rahm Emmanuel, Chief of Staff for President Barack Obama, infamously said, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.”REF This adage was applied in the Great Recession—and it cer...

Credit: UNICEF/Nahom Tesfaye KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, May 11 2021 (IPS) - Thanks to President Biden, the US now supports a suspension of intellectual property (IP) rights to increase vaccine supplies. However, without vaccine developers sharing tacit technical knowledge for safe vaccine mass production, it will be difficult to rapidly scale up vaccine output. Waiver delayed is waiver denied The CEOs of Pfizer and Astra Zeneca had recently asked the US President to reject the waiver request. Nevertheless, on 5 May, US Trade Representative (USTR) Katherine Tai announced US support for a vaccin...

In Bell County, physicians tout how far the ability to deal with COVID-19 has come in just a year since the virus was declared a pandemic.