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letsdothis3 ago

Support of Front-Line Workers in Ebola Crisis - http://partnerships.ifpma.org/partnership/support-of-front-line-workers-in-ebola-crisis

Several IFPMA pharmaceutical companies have been involved in efforts to develop Ebola vaccines. For more information on research and development activities of some of these companies, refer to profiles for GSK, J&J and MSD.

GSK donated $690,000 in cash contributions for the three most affected countries: Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. These donations include $562,000 to Save the Children, a long-standing partner in the region, to scale up work with frontline healthcare workers to maintain the delivery of essential health services and tackle the outbreak of Ebola. GSK also made donations of $64,000 each to humanitarian partners, AmeriCares and Direct Relief to enable these organisations to purchase and deliver critical supplies of personal protection equipment (PPE). Alongside this, GSK significantly increased medicine donations, with donated GSK products worth more than $1,122,500 to partners AmeriCares and Project HOPE.

As well as providing humanitarian support to affected regions, GSK accelerated the development of its candidate vaccine for Ebola at an unprecedented rate, with trials now underway.

GSK fast tracked development of the Ebola vaccine with many organisations, including the National Institutes of Health in the USA, the WHO, the Wellcome Trust and the UK Government. Learning from this experience GSK closely monitored the outbreak of the Zika virus in Brazil.

..Johnson & Johnson committed to a cash contribution of $1,000,000 to help advance health care worker safety and effectiveness in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Novartis worked with local business operations in affected regions, committed about $1,000,000 to the Red Cross and matched amounts raised by a global donation program among employees...

Bayer made medicines with a market value of $3.2 million available to Direct Relief free of charge to treat Ebola patients in Liberia and Sierra Leone. ..

The list goes on including: Pfizer and the Pfizer Foundation; AbbVie Foundation; AstraZeneca; Merck; Sanofi Foundation; Bristol-Myers Squibb; Abbott and Abbott Fund (Key partner organizations included AmeriCares, Direct Relief, Heart to Heart International and Partners In Health); Takeda; Roche; Janssen Diagnostics

Wellcome Sanger Institute: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellcome_Sanger_Institute

The Wellcome Sanger Institute, previously known as The Sanger Centre and Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, is a non-profit British genomics and genetics research institute, primarily funded by the Wellcome Trust

Wellcome Trust and Zika https://wellcome.ac.uk/news/taking-action-zika

A biotech firm called Oxitec (opens in a new tab), which the Wellcome Trust funded for several years, has developed a genetically modified version of the male Aedes aegypti mosquito, which produces sterile offspring.

We have funded another mosquito control programme called Eliminate Dengue (opens in a new tab), which uses naturally occurring bacteria called wolbachia to curb the spread of infection.

Voat posts:

comment by @carmencita https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/3182126/18274137

Bill Gates, who recently bought 500,000 shares of Monsanto stock, is reportedly funding the approval of genetically modified mosquitoes. It seems that not only will genetically modified salmon enter the environment along with unforeseen changes, but a new self-sterilizing mosquito may be joining them...

Biotech company Oxitec submitted a draft of its plan in March to release thousands of genetically modified male Aedes Aegypti mosquitoes into the area. This is the species of mosquito that carries and transmits Zika, dengue, and other nasty diseases. But Oxitec's version of these mosquitoes come with a genetic twist: a gene that wipes out any offspring they produce with wild female mosquitoes before the baby mosquitoes reach reproductive age.

letsdothis3 ago

Further from that link: https://wellcome.ac.uk/news/taking-action-zika

We also recently funded Professor Luke Alphey from the Pirbright Institute to investigate other methods for controlling the spread of viral infections by mosquitos, using synthetic biology techniques, though these are not yet in field trials.

Prof Alphey https://imgur.com/a/C2rPExu

https://www.epo.org/learning-events/european-inventor/finalists/2015/alphey.html

For more than ten years, Alphey has been supercharging a decades-old method known as the “Sterile Insect Technique” (SIT) to turn mosquitoes’ natural reproductive instincts against them. Through research Alphey conducted at Oxford University along with fellow scientist Dean Thomas and later at their university spin-off company, Oxitec, Alphey developed a method to use genetic engineering to ‘sterilise’ maleAedes aegypti mosquitos so that when released, these modified mosquitos breed offspring that do not survive to adulthood.

Woman Fighting Release of GMO Mosquitoes Found Dead in Hotel Pool - https://theantimedia.com/woman-fighting-gmo-mosquitoes-found-dead/

A longtime opponent of genetically engineered mosquitoes was found dead in a Washington D.C. hotel as she prepared to present a petition with over 200,000 signatures to the EPA.

On Tuesday morning Mila de Mier—a 45-year-old activist from Key West, Florida who opposed the release of genetically engineered mosquitoes—was found dead in a swimming pool at a hotel in Washington D.C. De Meir was visiting D.C. to deliver a petition to the Environmental Protection Agency demanding the agency deny a permit for the release of genetically engineered mosquitoes in Florida and Texas.

The D.C. Fire Department says the reported incident happened at the Cambria Hotel & Suites Washington, D.C. Convention Center on 899 O Street, NW. They say they were called to the scene at around 9:35 a.m. Medical crews say they attempted to treat the victim but later pronounced her dead.

letsdothis3 ago

Patent: https://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/originalDocument?FT=D&date=20080109&DB=worldwide.espacenet.com&locale=en_EP&CC=EP&NR=1246927B1&KC=B1&ND=5

Representative: Lord, Hilton David

https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/NaPj8zrXqYXJjmOipi6KDqvIQJc/appointments

One of his company appointments is Adverai Ltd https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/11317542

http://www.hoovers.com/company-information/cs/company-profile.adverai_ltd.c0939bb33f27d03e.html?aka_re=1

D&B Hoovers provides sales leads and sales intelligence data on over 120 million companies like ADVERAI LTD and Information Technology Services contacts in GUILDFORD, United Kingdom and around the world.

D&B Hoovers? I've seen them before...

Isaac Kappy 'live trolling' David Brock or is David Brock trolling us? A look into the Kappy family

Tony Veneruso of Veneruso Technical Consultants LLC

D&B Hoovers provides sales leads and sales intelligence data on over 120 million companies like Veneruso Technical Consultants LLC and Business consulting, nec contacts in SUGAR LAND, TX, United States and around the world.

CIA Undermining World Corporations Including Nortel Using Dun & Bradstreet and Moody;s Investor Services!! http://www.kolki.com/peace/CIA-Undermining-World.htm

Dun and Bradstreet is the parent company of D&B Hoovers

letsdothis3 ago

Company Cofounded by Paul Pelosi Jr. Charged with Securities Fraud

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged a company cofounded by Paul Pelosi Jr. with fraud on Wednesday after learning that two convicted criminals were running the business.

Paul Pelosi Jr., the son of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.), was the president and chief operating officer of Natural Blue Resources Inc., an investment company he cofounded that focuses on "environmentally-friendly" ventures.

The SEC charged four individuals with fraud, including former New Mexico Gov. Toney Anaya, and suspended trading in the company’s stock. Pelosi owned over 10 million shares in the company in 2009.

The SEC said Wednesday the company was "secretly controlled" by James E. Cohen and Joseph Corazzi, both of whom had previous fraud convictions. Corazzi violated federal securities laws and was barred from acting as an officer or director of a public company. Cohen was previously incarcerated for financial fraud.

..Pelosi cofounded the company in 2009. The SEC said Natural Blue’s mission is to "create, acquire, or otherwise invest in environmentally-friendly companies, including an initiative to locate, purify, and sell water recovered from underground aquifers in New Mexico and other areas with depleting water resources."

According to Bloomberg Businessweek, Pelosi served as president and chief operating officer of Natural Blue Resources, Inc. until January 11, 2010. Joseph Montalto is listed as the current president.