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Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 247: Reimagining Cell Therapy for Solid Tumors with...

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Ming-Wei Chen and Fanheng Zhou, the scientists behind RephImmune, join hosts Lynnsey and Matthew to discuss how their biotech startup is developing a next-generation cell therapy platform designed to overcome the limitations...more

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Taking the Pulse: A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 235: Revolutionizing Cancer Care with Eric Perrault of...

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Recorded at SCbio’s 2025 annual conference, Heather and Lauren welcome Eric Perrault, the CEO of Kiyatec, which focuses on functional precision oncology. Eric discusses their exciting process, which aims to predict how...more

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Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 234: Life-Saving Collaboration in the Life Sciences...

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Recorded at SCBio’s 2025 annual conference, hosts Heather and Matthew welcome keynote speaker John Crowley, President and CEO of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO), the world’s leading advocacy group for the life...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

Preparing for the European Health Data Space - Opportunities and Challenges for Europe’s Digital Future

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The EU regulation designed to facilitate secondary use of clinical data for research brings benefits for health research, but also poses challenges for companies....more

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Mass General Brigham study offers promise that nasal spray targeting neuroinflammation could become an effective treatment for TBI

The secondary cascade, although a normal physiological response, can contribute to ongoing neuroinflammation, oxidative stress and axonal injury, continuing in some cases years after the initial insult.  There is no clearly...more

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Dialysis & Nephrology Digest - February 2025

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A New Hope in Kidney Transplants: The Promise of Xenotransplantation - Joe’s struggle for a kidney transplant highlights a dire reality: donor shortages are leaving countless patients in limbo. Enter Dr. PK, a pioneering...more

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NIH Cuts Research Funding for Indirect Costs

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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) published guidance late on Feb. 7, 2025, setting the indirect cost rate for NIH grants at 15 percent, replacing the negotiated indirect cost rates at many universities, which typically...more

A&O Shearman

Key regulatory changes impacting the healthcare industry in the EU and Germany in 2025

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The regulatory frameworks in the life sciences and healthcare sector keep evolving rapidly and dynamically. Several important legislative reforms have been adopted over the last years, which are set to impact players in the...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Tackling Review of ‘Uninformative’ Studies, SACHRP Joins Quest to Boost Research Caliber

In 2023, after two years of study, an NIH task force proposed a series of recommendations to improve stewardship of research it funds, including that the agency adopt “stopping rules” that would allow poorly designed or low...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

‘If Only She Could Have Been Stronger’: Miami Trial Fraud Leads to Prison, Personal Loss

In September 2015, while working in an office on the grounds of Mercy Hospital in Miami, Ivette Maria Portela Martinez learned about an upcoming clinical trial for treatment of symptoms of Clostridium difficile infections and...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

FDA Issues Final Guidance on Informed Consent in Clinical Investigations

On August 15, 2023, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) finalized Informed Consent: Guidance for IRBs, Clinical Investigators, and Sponsors (final guidance). This document finalizes, with new examples and limited...more

Epstein Becker & Green

FDA Issues Final Guidance on Informed Consent for IRBs, Clinical Investigators, and Sponsors

On August 15, 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) released final guidance on informed consent for clinical investigations (“Final Guidance”). This update follows FDA’s draft guidance, which was issued in July...more

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ArentFox Schiff Issues the First Global Definitive Legal Guide for Industries Navigating AI

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Artificial intelligence promises to transform the way we live and work and its impact will undoubtedly stretch to every business sector across the globe. This next generation of technology brings exciting possibilities and...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

FDA Publishes Informed Consent Final Guidance for Drug and Medical Device Clinical Investigations

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA or the Agency) has issued the final guidance document, “Informed Consent: Guidance for Institutional Review Boards, Clinical Investigators, and Sponsors” (Final Guidance). The...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Protecting Innovations in SaMD & Biomedical Applications

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With the ever-growing adaptation of software in all realms of health care, the market for software for medical devices (SaMD) is forecasted to grow 16.7% per year over the next decade and surpass $5 billion by 2032....more

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FDA Issues Draft Guidance on Decentralized Clinical Trials for Drugs, Biological Products and Devices

Over the past few years, the life sciences and healthcare industries have experienced a notable increase in focus and interest in decentralized clinical trials (DCTs), in which some or all of the trial-related activities...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Clinical Research and Patient Data Protection are at a Complicated Intersection

The privacy landscape in the United States and much of the world is quickly evolving around the framework of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) within the European Economic Alliance (EEA). Clinical trials involve...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Minimizing the Fallout from Increasing FDA Clinical Holds

With medical and scientific advances progressing at an exponential pace, FDA appears to be taking a more aggressive stance in imposing clinical holds on studies where adverse events are reported. Over the last several years,...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

FDA Issues Guidance on Drug and Biologic Submissions with Real-World Data and Real-World Evidence

Last month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a final guidance on drug and biologic submissions to the agency that include real-world data (RWD) and real-world evidence (RWE). The procedural guidance aims to...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

FDA Releases Draft Guidance for Sponsors on How to Comply with Study Data Standards When Submitting RWD-Sourced Study Data

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a draft guidance titled Data Standards for Drug and Biological Product Submissions Containing Real-World Data on October 21, 2021. The guidance provides the Agency’s thoughts...more

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International Privacy Laws and Clinical Trials

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Recent developments in international privacy laws have complicated the conduct of clinical trials outside of the United States. Since the privacy law of the European Union – the General Data Protection Regulation or “GDPR” –...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Highlights From The Wall Street Journal’s Health Forum

The Wall Street Journal’s Health Forum convened—virtually—on March 24th during an extraordinary period in global health: the novel coronavirus is threatening populations, overwhelming provider systems, and sending economies...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

What You Need to Know About the Right to Try Act and Patient Access to Experimental Drugs

Recently, President Donald Trump signed into law the Right to Try Act of 2018 (RTTA).1 The RTTA represents the federal version of laws previously passed by a majority of the states, but with important differences. This WSGR...more

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Obama Signs 21st Century Cures Act, Adding $6.3 Billion For Medical Research

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The Cures Act aims to increase the speed by which new drugs are brought to market by streamlining clinical trials, allowing the use of patient data in the regulatory review process, and modernizing U.S. Food and Drug...more

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It’s About Time! 10 Key (Needed) Changes Proposed to the Human Subjects Protection “Common Rule”

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The world has changed drastically since 1991 when Operation Desert Storm was underway; the USSR crumbled; Prince Charles and Princess Diana separated; the World Wide Web was born; gas cost $1.14; and the Dow peaked at 3168....more

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