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EXCLUSIVE: Billionaire Eric Lefkofsky’s Tempus Raises $200 Million To Bring Personalized Medicine To New Diseases

The Groupon cofounder’s precision medicine company, which uses AI-based diagnostics, has broadened its focus to infectious disease and cardiology in addition to cancer.

Moderna CEO: Covid-19 Vaccine’s ‘Fantastic’ Results Mean It Could Be Ready Next Month

Stéphane Bancel says data showing 95% efficacy for his company’s vaccine means that it may be able to start distributing its vaccine in late December, pending a green light from the FDA.

Trump Wants To Go Down In History As The Man Who Ended Covid-19, Claiming Moderna Vaccine Success As His Own

Trump urged historians to remember that the “great discoveries” that will end Covid-19 “all took place on my watch.”

Biortus Gets $15 Mln From Pharmaron-Backed Bayland Capital

The COVID-19 pandemic has put a spotlight on China’s pharmaceutical industry.

Three Billionaires Behind Pfizer’s Vaccine Partner BioNTech Are $2 Billion Richer After It Announces Covid-19 Vaccine Results

The announcement that the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine could be up to 90% effective against the coronavirus led to a surge in BioNTech’s stock, adding billions to the net worths of its founder Uğur Şahin and its largest investors, Thomas and Andreas Struen…

Billionaire Ray Dalio’s Foundation Funds $50 Million ‘Health Justice’ Center To Curb Health Disparities Affecting Minorities

Dalio Philanthropies is partnering with NewYork-Presbyterian to launch a new center for health justice.

2021 Breakthrough Prize Winners Announced: Researcher Who Developed Protein Design Technology Awarded $3 Million

David Baker, whose protein design technology is being used to develop therapies for Covid-19 and cancer, received one of several awards to scientists from the Breakthrough Prize Foundation that add up to a combined total of $21.75 million.

The Covid Vaccine Will Require Billions Of Tiny Glass Vials – And This Italian Billionaire Family Is Making Them

Thousands of employees donned face masks to work around the clock in three daily shifts, seven days a week – making everything from insulin pen cartridges to miniature glass barrels and — most pressingly — millions of tiny sterile vials, each one small…

The Covid Vaccine Will Require Billions Of Tiny Glass Vials – And This Italian Billionaire Family Is Making Them

Thousands of employees donned face masks to work around the clock in three daily shifts, seven days a week – making everything from insulin pen cartridges to miniature glass barrels and — most pressingly — millions of tiny sterile vials, each one small…

Dow Jumps 450 Points As Stocks Continue Record Run

Stocks continued their strong start to what is historically a bad month for markets.