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
R&D Tax Credit: What Healthcare Professionals Should Know
No Fear: Lessons from Lebanon to Life Sciences with Dr. Moise Khayrallah
Policy Announcements - On September 6, 2024, the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) National Development and Reform Commission and the PRC Ministry of Commerce issued the “Special Administrative Measures for Foreign...more
Last night, the House of Representatives passed the BIOSECURE Act (BIOSECURE or the Act) by a bipartisan vote of 306 to 81. The BIOSECURE Act prohibits federal agencies from procuring or obtaining any biotechnology...more
Report on Research Compliance 21, no. 9 (September, 2024) - Based on their review of public data on ClinicalTrials.gov, a bipartisan quartet of U.S. representatives has asked the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to...more
In today’s global economy, product research and development (R&D) has historically been concentrated in the U.S. and China. However, these efforts are beginning to decentralize and spread into new regions, such as Japan and...more
China’s state council issued State Council Degree No. 769 on December 21, 2023 to enact the Implementing Regulations of the Patent Law (Amended in 2023) (hereinafter referred to as “the Implementing Regulations (Amended in...more
This is the first of two articles focused on 2023 life sciences deals in China. The second article, which is coming soon, looks at trends in M&A. In 2023, there were 240 reported life sciences licensing deals in China,...more
With ever-increasing threats from the Chinese Communist Party, recently exposed vulnerabilities in the United States' supply chain and decades of outsourcing that has left the defense and industrial base vulnerable, there is...more
Congress — Big Agenda & Little Time - With the holidays behind us, Congress returned this week for the second half of the 118th Congress with a long list of items to address and, as the 2024 campaign season ramps up, limited...more
It came as something of a shock in May, 2021 when the Biden administration voiced support for waiver of intellectual property protection mandated under the TRIPS agreement for COVID-19 vaccines (see "Biden Administration...more
According to the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (“NCSES”), a key driver in the scientific and technological accomplishments of U.S. research universities is the volume of federal support for research...more
The Cybersecurity Administration of China ("CAC") and six other agencies jointly promulgated Interim Measures for the Administration of Generative Artificial Intelligence Services ("Generative AI Measures" or "Rules"), that...more
Holland & Knight invites you to read our China Practice Newsletter, in which our authors discuss pertinent Sino-American topics. ...more
Last month, former University of Kansas Professor Feng “Franklin” Tao was sentenced to time served and two years of supervised release for making false statements in the University of Kansas’s conflict of interest and...more
Report on Research Compliance Volume 20, Number 2. (January 2023) -Since his arrest in August 2019, Feng “Franklin” Tao has published 16 “research articles” for the University of Kansas (KU), authored a book and began...more
WHAT: On September 30, 2022, President Biden signed the SBIR and STTR Extension Act of 2022, reauthorizing the SBIR/STTR programs to continue through fiscal year 2025. The SBIR/SSTR programs were set to expire on the day...more
The CHIPS and Sciences Act of 2022 (the “Act”) was passed by the U.S. Congress on July 27, 2022 and signed into law by President Biden on August 9 of the same year. The Act is an effort to increase semiconductor manufacturing...more
The Guidelines for Patent Examination provides in Section 6.2 of Chapter 4, Part II: “When evaluating the inventive step of an invention, the examiner is apt to underestimate the inventive step of the invention since he has...more
One of the few remaining opportunities for passage of bipartisan legislation this Congress is legislation to improve America’s competitiveness vis-à-vis China for semiconductor manufacturing and scientific research and...more
On Friday, February 4, 2022, the House passed the America COMPETES Act on nearly a straight party line vote to, among many other priorities, fund domestic semiconductor chip manufacturing, dramatically increase scientific...more
On July 1, 2019, the Administrative Regulations on Human Genetic Resources (人类遗传资源管理条例) (the “Regulations”) issued by the State Council of the People’s Republic of China (the “PRC”) came into effect. On October 17, 2020, the...more
Report on Research Compliance 18, no. 9 (September, 2021) - A former Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researcher who was the principal investigator on a 2014 NIH award of $939,495.27 and...more
Arent Fox National Security Partner David R. Hanke and Government Relations Practice Co-Leader Dan H. Renberg discuss what's considered the most significant U.S. industrial policy legislation in decades....more
This past month, the U.S. Senate debated a provision in the Innovation and Competition Act that would require the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) to review any proposed gifts and contracts of $1...more
On June 8, 2021, the U.S. Senate passed the United States Innovation and Competition Act of 2021 (USICA) in a bipartisan vote of 68 to 32. The 2,000-page bill is largely focused on addressing the challenges of U.S....more
The U.S. Senate has kicked off the complicated process of coordinating and passing multi-committee legislation designed to bolster U.S. technological capabilities, expand the U.S. political, diplomatic, and economic toolkit...more