Avid Bioservices Inc (CDMO)

[biopharm]

A disconnect? I guess we can say that things are much bigger than they appear

It has always been about the IP and now with sources disclosing the Federal Investigations regarding cutting edge IP, which includes PS Targeting...I would wait for the dust to settle

Why did Ken Dart shut down Dart Neuroscience?

Why did Rolf Brekken make the trek to China?

Did Peregrine just give back the exosomes / IP back to a US institution?

Lots of questions and it had always been about the IP

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DOE bars its researchers from participating in rival nations talent programs

June 20, 2019

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The National Institutes of Health has launched investigations into cases where it believes researchers may be receiving undisclosed support from foreign entities, diverting intellectual property, or inappropriately sharing grant applications. On 5 June NIH deputy director Lawrence Tabak told the Senate Finance Committee that the agency has made inquiries with 61 institutions where it believes such activities may be taking place.

Those inquiries have already led the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, to investigate five of its researchers. Several reportedly left the center after it initiated termination proceedings. The center cleared one of the five, finding no â??willful malfeasanceâ? and recommending no disciplinary action because the researcher retired voluntarily before it completed the investigation. Separately, Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, recently fired two Chinese American researchers and closed their laboratories, finding they had not properly disclosed foreign funding.

The Department of Defense would have implemented strict restrictions on talent program participation under a proposal floated last year in the House, which authorized DOD to require grant applicants to certify that no recipient of grant funds had ever participated in such a program. Ultimately, Congress enacted a more moderate measure that directed DOD to work with universities to develop appropriate policies. The department has since implemented a policy that requires grant applicants to disclose information about all research projects that key personnel are working on, regardless of their funding source.
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https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.2.20190620a/full/