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InnoCare Pharma and Zenas BioPharma Announce License Agreement

Palo Alto – October 8, 2025 – Cooley advised InnoCare Pharma, a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to discovering, developing and commercializing first-in-class and best-in-class drugs for the treatment of cancers and autoimmune diseases with unmet medical needs in China and worldwide, on its transformational license agreement with Zenas BioPharma, granting Zenas global development and commercialization rights to orelabrutinib for multiple sclerosis and across all therapeutic areas other than oncology. Under…

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John Bostic Inducted Into American College of Trial Lawyers

Palo Alto – October 13, 2025 – Cooley partner John Bostic was inducted into the American College of Trial Lawyers (ACTL) during the organization’s national meeting on October 11. Founded in 1950, the ACTL is widely considered the premier professional trial organization in North America. Its membership comprises the best of the trial bar from the United States and Canada. Fellowship in the college is extended by invitation only –…

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Oxford researchers return to the Jurassic Highway

The new discovery follows the success of an excavation in summer 2024 at Dewars Farm quarry near Bicester, which featured on BBC Two’s Digging For Britain. This revealed hundreds of dinosaur footprints dating back to the Middle Jurassic Period (around 166 million years ago), from both the 9 metre carnivore Megalosaurus, and enormous herbivorous dinosaurs up to twice that size.Through these excavations and analyses, we are building a more and…

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New lab-grown human embryo model produces blood cells

University of Cambridge scientists have used human stem cells to create three-dimensional embryo-like structures that replicate certain aspects of very early human development – including the production of blood stem cells.Human blood stem cells, also known as hematopoietic stem cells, are immature cells that can develop into any type of blood cell, including red blood cells that carry oxygen and various types of white blood cells crucial to the immune…

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What does Dubai chocolate tell us about why certain foods go viral?

Professor Charles Spence. Credit: Caroline Wood. If you are wondering why the price of pistachios has surged this year, Dubai chocolate takes a lot of the blame. This confectionary creation – a chocolate bar filled with a mix of pistachio and shredded filo pastry – became an international sensation this year after a social media influencer filmed themselves eating it. Within months, supermarkets were scrambling to launch their own versions,…

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OFSI Imposes Financial Penalty on UK Life Sciences Company for Payments to Sanctioned Banks in Russia

On 10 September 2025, the UK’s Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) issued a notice imposing a 152,750-pound penalty on Colorcon Limited, a UK-registered company. A global provider of pharmaceutical and nutritional supplies, Colorcon had been operating in Russia for nearly 15 years before the company’s eventual exit from the country in August 2022. OFSI’s penalty decision was made in response to the company’s breach of Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit)…

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