Industry & Policy News

[Imperial College London] Imperial researchers will lead two hubs to improve global access to life-saving vaccines. The hubs, led by Professor Robin Shattock and Professor Faith Osier, will develop new vaccine technologies that can be easily and cheaply be manufactured in low- and middle-income countries.

[University of Alabama at Birmingham] Yabing Chen, Ph.D., has been awarded two National Institutes of Health grants totaling more than $5 million to further her research into vascular diseases ranging from hardening of the arteries to dementia.

[Boston University] Dr. Deborah Lang has been awarded a two-year, $300,000 Discovery Boost Grant from the American Cancer Society for her research project “Exploring roles for PAX3 in regulating gene expression on a post transcriptional level.”

[ESC & iPSC News, Mesenchymal Cell News, Umbilical & Placental Cell News, Organoid News] The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) and publisher Cell Press are extending their partnership to publish the ISSCR’s open access, peer-reviewed journal, Stem Cell Reports.

[The Guardian] As a Nobel laureate, Prof Frances Arnold is not short of accolades. Yet being the only woman to so far win the Millennium Technology Prize – the Nobel equivalent for engineers – is one of the least appealing.

[Fierce Pharma] As shortages of drugs like amoxicillin, penicillin, Adderall and certain chemotherapies continue to confound doctors and patients in the US, two high-ranking Republican lawmakers are pressing the FDA for answers.