Executive Actions Impact Federally Funded Research: What Institutions Should Do Now – Diagnosing Health Care Video Podcast
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 215: Bioactives for Human Health with Jan-Willem van Klinken of Brightseed
False Claims Act Insights - Eureka! Government Investigators Seek Out Research Misconduct
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 194: Workforce Development for the Life Sciences Industry with David Stefanich of Rymedi
Episode 185: America’s Bioeconomy with Sarah Glaven, White House Research Biologist
Wiley's 10 Key Trade Developments: The CHIPS Act and Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)
Episode 183: Site Development for Life Sciences Companies with Adam Bruns of Site Selection Magazine
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 181: South Carolina’s Life Sciences Economy with Ashely Teasdel, Deputy Secretary of SC Department of Commerce
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 180: SCBIO and the Life Sciences Industry in South Carolina with James Chappell, SCBIO CEO
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 179: Obesity Effects on the Workforce & Economy with Tim Dall, Healthcare Economist
Stoel Rives | Deeply Rooted Podcast S3E3: AgTech Innovation and Robotics with Burro CEO Charlie Andersen
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 171: Laura Gunter, President of the NC Life Sciences Organization
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 169: Shirley Paddock, Senior VP of Clinical Development, Syneos Health
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 166 — Christine Vannais, COO of Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 165: Doug Edgeton, President and CEO of the North Carolina Biotechnology Center
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 163: David Ellison, Chief Data Scientist for Lenovo’s Infrastructure Solutions Group
Delivering Successful Research Projects: What Legal Marketers Need to Know - Passle's CMO Series Podcast
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 154: Andy Schwartzkopf, General Counsel and Chief Administration Officer, Signature Medical Group
Business Better Podcast Episode: Accelerating Life Sciences: How Accelerators and Education Are Joining Forces to Catapult the Life Sciences Industry
The 'Secrets' of Trade Secrets in Government Contracting
On July 16, 2025, President Trump signed the Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl (“HALT Fentanyl”) Act into law. The law permanently reclassifies “fentanyl-related substances” into Schedule I of the Controlled Substances...more
On July 24, 2025, the Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP) and Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Council published its latest rewrite to the FAR. We previously discussed this rewrite initiative—the Revolutionary FAR...more
On July 18, 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rolled out the “reorganization plan” for its Office of Research and Development (ORD). The stated goal of the plan is to reduce budget expenditures, improve...more
In the early days of the second Trump Administration, several federal funding agencies announced caps to indirect cost (“IDC”) rates for federally funded research awards. In many cases, these caps would substantially reduce...more
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) introduces sweeping reforms to the federal tax code, many of which have lasting implications for businesses and their owners. The provisions highlighted below address key tax...more
On April 10, 2025, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a landmark initiative to phase out animal testing in drug development, signaling a major shift toward human-relevant, science-driven alternatives. This...more
On July 4, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (OBBBA) was signed into law, which includes provisions restoring immediate deduction of domestic research and experimentation (R&E) expenditures in tax years beginning after...more
On July 23, the White House released its strategic action plan on AI, “Winning the Race: America’s AI Action Plan” (the AI Action Plan), which is designed to secure U.S. global leadership in AI with a strategic focus on...more
On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the OBBB) into law, making permanent the reduced individual tax rates and brackets established by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 and modifying a...more
On July 4, President Trump signed into law H.R. 1, (the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (“OBBBA”)), a sweeping legislation package featuring significant changes to U.S. tax law. The OBBBA was passed via a budget reconciliation...more
Recently, President Donald Trump signed the bill known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) into law. OBBBA permanently extends many provisions of the Internal Revenue Code (Code) introduced by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act...more
On July 2, 2025, the European Commission released its communication “Choose Europe for life sciences. A strategy to position the EU as the world’s most attractive place for life sciences by 2030” (the Strategy). ...more
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) will hold a webinar on July 17, 2025, on “Nanotechnology R&D Infrastructure: Then and Now.” NASEM states that in the two decades since the authorization of...more
A recent study published in Nature Microbiology by researchers at the University of Cambridge revealed that certain human gut bacteria may have the capacity to bioaccumulate per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and...more
With volatile market conditions and recent FDA shakeups, biotech companies are increasingly focused on bolstering cash runways and accelerating R&D efforts. But fierce competition for financing has some biotechs turning to...more
President Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB Act) into law on Friday July 4, 2025. Among other changes to existing federal tax laws (many of which are discussed by other alerts from this firm), the OBBB Act...more
President Donald Trump signed into law the One Big Beautiful Bill Act on July 4, 2025. Among many other provisions, this bill permits taxpayers to deduct domestic research and experimentation (R&E) expenditures under new...more
On July 4, 2025, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB) was signed into law. The OBBB extends various expiring tax provisions from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) and introduces a variety of other substantial tax law changes....more
The race to remake portions of the Internal Revenue Code (Code) and to prevent expiration of certain Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) provisions reached completion with Legislation signed by President Trump on July 4, 2025....more
On July 3, 2025 Congress passed, and on July 4, 2025 President Trump signed into law, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB), which extends various expiring tax provisions from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and introduces a...more
The One Big Beautiful Bill creates and/or modifies a number of tax rules that impact taxation of business income, including the permanent extension of the 20% pass-through deduction under Section 199A and the return of full...more
Reflecting thwarted desires to continue their terms, while answering calls from trial administrators and oversight leaders, seven former members of the highest-ranking federal advisory panel on human research...more
On June 16, the Senate Finance Committee (SFC) released revisions to the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (OBBBA) passed by the US House of Representatives on May 22. As described in this June 4 Cooley client alert, the OBBBA...more
Section 1202 provides an exclusion from capital gains when a stockholder sells qualified small business stock (QSBS), assuming all eligibility requirements are satisfied. Section 1045 provides for the tax-free rollover of...more
On June 16, 2025, the Senate Finance Committee released its draft of the tax provisions in H.R. 1 (commonly referred to as the “One Big Beautiful Bill” (the SFC Bill)). We previously covered the original legislation passed by...more