Publication Bias Versus Deficient Peer Review: Chloroquine Data Lessons

A much-publicized data on the risk of chloroquine therapy in COVID had to be retracted due to questions about the underlying data creating much more than an embarrassment for the authors and the publishers. It once again highlighted how in the race to publish first; journals cut corners in the peer-review. There were several obvious … Read more

Innovio’s Fate Rests on a Contractor: Client-Contractor Relationship 101 

This week Innovio Pharmaceuticals and its manufacturing vendor, VGXI, got into a public disagreement regarding the terms of their contract which is a primer on vendor management for any company working with vendors in mission critical roles. Innovio would like to move commercial production of the most promising product in its portfolio to new vendors … Read more