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ATLANTA and MIAMI, March 19, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Ridgeback Biotherapeutics LP, a closely held biotechnology company, and Drug Innovations at Emory (DRIVE), LLC, a not-for-profit biotechnology company wholly owned by Emory University, today announced a collaboration to rapidly advance DRIVE’s EIDD-2801, a promising oral COVID-19 treatment, into human testing. This collaboration combines Ridgeback’s unique experience…

Washington, DC (March 12, 2020) – The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has adopted regulatory changes to provide small public companies with a temporary exemption from Sarbanes-Oxley 404(b) compliance. 404(b) requires public companies to report on the internal controls they have in place over their financial reporting. While well-intended, this regulatory requirement has proven to reduce market…

Atlanta, GA – Governor Brian P. Kemp today announced that Bryan County will be home to Georgia’s newest Medline Industries, Inc. location in the state. Medline, the largest privately held manufacturer and distributor of medical supplies, will invest over $70 million to build a new distribution center in Richmond Hill that will create 150 new jobs…

Two big-name biopharmas—Takeda Pharmaceutical and Alnylam Pharmaceuticals—today separately entered the scramble to develop new treatments for SARS-CoV-2 infection, the virus identified as the cause of the global COVID-19 outbreak—adding to the 35 coronavirus treatments in development that were identified by GEN this week. Takeda said it has begun development of TAK-888, an anti-SARS-CoV-2 polyclonal hyperimmune globulin (H-IG) designed to…

Boehringer Ingelheim has entered a research collaboration and licensing agreement with biopharma company Trutino Bioscience, with the aim of developing new cancer immunology compounds.  The agreement will leverage Trutino’s On-Demand-Cytokine (ODC) platform, which is designed to mask the activity of cytokines until they reach the targeted tumour site and become fully activated. This means the…

A top biotech expert at Emory University says U.S. businesses should think twice before shutting down facilities over coronavirus fears.  “Certainly I think efforts should be made to keep business on track. I don’t think wholesale shutdowns in the absence of reasoned probability of spreading the disease is advisable,” said George Painter in a Feb. 25 interview…