30 Nov, 2017 Ask a GDPR expert at Pharma Lawconvention, Berlin. By Mark Franklin I've spent the last 2 days listening to experts on GDPR in the Life Science industry. There are about 120 working days until this...
29 Nov, 2017 Livia Zamfiropol speaks at Pharma lawconvention of GDPR By Mark Franklin A number of GDPR experts from pharma companies gathered in Berlin to discuss data privacy and GDPR. Livia Zamfiropol (DLA Piper partner)...
17 Nov, 2017 Checkpoint Inhibitors and Diabetes By Lisa Haile PD-L1 and checkpoint inhibitors have been front and center in the media relating to the treatment of cancer. Researches are now looking...
17 Nov, 2017 Regulating High Cholesterol-A Never Ending Challenge By Lisa Haile Researchers from Harvard identified a new protein, Nrf1, which regulates high cholesterol by binding directly to it. This binding prompts...
17 Nov, 2017 Human Embryonic Stem Cells to Treat Blindness By Lisa Haile We have been hearing for a decade about the use of stem cells to create organs and treat diseases. Today, a study showing that hES cells...
15 Nov, 2017 Roche's Alecensa for Lung Cancer Gets a Nod from the FDA By Lisa Haile Roche's Alecensa, a drug for treatment of ALK positive lung cancer, has received a nod from the FDA. While only 5% of lung cancer...
14 Nov, 2017 Sanofi Enters the Race to Develop a New Drug for Multiple Sclerosis By Lisa Haile Sanofi has paid big bucks to enter the race to develop a new drug for MS. The drug was developed by Principia Biopharma and crosses the...
10 Nov, 2017 Transparency in Pay By Kate Hodgkiss In sectors where male employees hold the most senior jobs, and women are under-represented at all levels, the Gender Pay Gap Reports may...
10 Nov, 2017 Glacial progress or on the point of change? By Kate Hodgkiss The fact that this day remains unchanged from last year confirms that the pace of change has been ... rather less than "pacey". I will...
10 Nov, 2017 Flexibility and expertise combined By Kate Hodgkiss Interesting article about fledgling creative ways of enabling tomorrow's employees acquire the hands- on practical experience and skills...
10 Nov, 2017 Medical devices and the smartphone's growing influence By DLA Piper Like many, I love finding out about how technology is shaping our lives and changing society. Deloitte's new research on smartphones...
06 Nov, 2017 Do you know the top 10 most popular m-Health apps? By Marina Rubini The m-Health market will reach approx. $ 26 billion globally by 2017 with a number of m-Health apps downloaded worldwide of about 3.2...
03 Nov, 2017 Taxing pads and tampons (or not). The Canary Islands innovate. By Diego Ramos The regional government of the Canary Islands has decided to cut off the local value added tax applicable to sanitary pads and tampons....
02 Nov, 2017 Extending patent protection for life science companies By DLA Piper How far does the new doctrine of equivalents introduced by the UK Supreme Court in Eli Lilly v Actavis really extend the scope of patent...
01 Nov, 2017 Doctrine of equivalents: what's new in Continental Europe? By Roberto Valenti For the first time, in Eli Lilly v Actavis the UK Supreme Court has introduced a doctrine of equivalence in an effort to move closer to...