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Alder BioPharmaceuticals is now looking for a new chief executive, just as the company readies plans to file for FDA approval of its lead drug for migraine headaches.

Randy Schatzman (pictured above, right) is out as Alder’s (NASDAQ: ALDR) CEO, the Bothell, WA, company announced Tuesday after the markets closed. Schatzman also resigned from the company’s board of directors. In his place, Alder has appointed board member Paul Cleveland to serve as interim CEO. Cleveland will also keep his board seat. A spokesman for Alder said the company would not comment beyond the press release.

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San Diego-based Human Longevity, which is combining genomic and phenotypic data and using machine learning to extract insights about health and wellness, has named Scott Sorensen as chief technology officer. Sorensen, who reports to founder, chairman, and CEO J. Craig Venter, was previously the CTO at Ancestry. In a statement Monday, Human Longevity said Sorensen was integral in developing the strategy that transformed Ancestry from a family history business into a genomics business.

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San Diego-based Human Longevity, which is combining genomic and phenotypic data and using machine learning to extract insights about health and wellness, has named Scott Sorensen as chief technology officer. Sorensen, who reports to founder, chairman, and CEO J. Craig Venter, was previously the CTO at Ancestry. In a statement Monday, Human Longevity said Sorensen was integral in developing the strategy that transformed Ancestry from a family history business into a genomics business.

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[Source: Research & Innovation] This e-conference is intended to provide further feedback on what has been learned so far from the work in the EU-funded Horizon 2020 research project on “Small Farms, Small Food Businesses and Sustainable Food Security”, commonly known as SALSA project (for more info: http://www.salsa.uevora.pt/en/)
The e-conference will help identifying key knowledge gaps, as well as to share examples that will contribute to build the SALSA empirical base. Using this second e-conference, the SALSA team wants to catalyse and foster an ongoing dialogue with relevant stakeholders.
This is the second e-conference carried out within the SALSA project. The previous e-conference took place in October 2016. 462 participants provided a total of 99 contributions, which result in a significant input to the SALSA project.
The virtual discussion is intended to draw the attention of researchers, educators, students and a wide spectrum of food chain/food system actors and entrepreneurs, as well as policy makers and administrators at multiple levels, on the role of small farms within a larger context.

Today we celebrate #NationalAgDay. Started in 1973 by the Agriculture Council of America, National Ag Day celebrates the abundance provided by U.S. agriculture. More recently, the annual national celebration has stretched into a #NationalAgWeek. To help you join in the celebration, we’ve listed below things happening around Capitol Hill all week in honor of American Agriculture:

Tuesday, March 20: Agriculture Secretary Perdue Participating in National Ag Day Events

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue will participate in three events today to commemorate National Ag Day. First, Perdue will introduce Vice President Mike Pence at USDA, who will deliver remarks commemorating President Trump’s National Ag Day Proclamation. Perdue will then head over to the National Press Club to deliver National Ag Day remarks. Finally, tonight Secretary Perdue will be honored with the Abraham Lincoln Vision Award from the National 4-H Council.

Wednesday, March 21: Agri-Pulse Ag & Food Policy Summit

Agri-Pulse holds its Ag & Food Policy Summit this Wednesday at the Hyatt Recency Hotel in Washington, D.C. in honor of National Ag Week. The all-day event will focus on agriculture and food policy and is headlined by some big names in the agriculture sector, including:

• Zippy Duvall, President, American Farm Bureau
• Roger Johnson, President, National Farmers Union
• Ted McKinney, Under Secretary of Agriculture for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs, USDA
• Chairman Pat Roberts, Senate Agriculture Committee
• Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member, Senate Agriculture Committee
• Sara Wyant, Editor, Agri-Pulse

For more information about the event and to register, click here.

Thursday, March 22: CAST Panel Discussion on Regulatory Barriers to the Development of Innovative Agricultural Biotechnology  

This Thursday, the Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST) will be hosting a presentation and discussion, cohosted by the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, on the regulatory challenges facing universities and small businesses when it comes to developing innovations. The presentation and discussion will be led by Dr. Alan McHughen, CE Biotechnology Specialist and Geneticist form the University of California, Riverside. For more information and to register to attend, visit the event page here.

Be on the lookout for more content and information about National Ag Day by following #NationalAgDay on Twitter and Facebook.

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[Source: http://ec.europa.eu/health/ageing/innovation/index_en.htm] Identifier: AGRI-MULTI-2018Pillar: AGRIP-1-1Opening Date: Deadline: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018Latest information: A corrigendum to the call AGRI-MULTI-2018 was published on 19 March 2018 in the OJ C 103/2018. The submission deadline is extended until 19 April 2018.

San Antonio – CytoBioScience, a bioscience company that canceled plans to merge with a publicly traded business last year, may have new merger plans.

The San Antonio-based business raised a $1.53 million equity round of funding, according to a document filed with the SEC, which states that the funds are being raised in connection with an intended merger. The filing didn’t reveal any additional details and CytoBioScience hasn’t responded to requests for comment.

Founded in Germany, CytoBioScience moved to San Antonio in 2015. It sells a device, the CytoPatch, for screening the safety and efficacy of drug formulations. The base… Read more »

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Editorial: Abe Lincoln was right about Twitter … Not only that, the fake news enjoyed a much greater reach: While true tweets generally reached fewer than 1,000 Twitter users, the worst falsehoods reached 10 times as … (Indeed, Twitter users who spread the falsehoods tended to have fewer followers.) …