Payroll R&D Credit Five Years Later: Forging a New Path

By John Guy, Manager, Emerging Companies Policy at Biotechnology Innovation Organization

December 18, 2020:  Five years ago today, the Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes (PATH) Act was signed into law. This important piece of legislation included several provisions helpful to start ups like small biotechs, including permanently extending both the R&D Credit and the Small Business Stock Gains Exclusion (Tax Code Section 1202), providing both investors and the companies they invest in security without worry of losing access to the critical incentive in the future.

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iMetabolic Biopharma Corporation Announces Expansion of its Strategic OmniAb Antibody Discovery Partnership with Ligand Pharmaceuticals Accelerating iMetabolic’s iPlatform™ Technology and Pipeline Development

TEMPE, Ariz.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–iMetabolic Biopharma Corporation (iMBP) announces expansion of its strategic partnership relationship with Ligand Pharmaceuticals, building on an earlier alliance agreement initiated in 2018, giving access to Ligand’s OmniAb platform. Continue reading

Rockefeller Foundation’s third National Covid-19 Testing Action Plan calls on the U.S. government to massively scale up Covid-19 testing

Rockefeller Foundation’s third National Covid-19 Testing Action Plan calls on the U.S. government to massively scale up Covid-19 testing an lays out a new plan for the largest domestic testing scale up to date and proposes 14 executive actions for the current and incoming administrations to take in order to rapidly alter the trajectory of the pandemic in the United States. Testing all U.S. public K-12 public schools would cost $42.5 billion, or $8.5 billion per month for the remainder of the school year from February to June 2021.Continue reading