News HighlightCommission Awarded Silver Telly for Germ Warfare: A Very Graphic History
The Commission is proud to announce that we are a recipient of a Silver Telly Award for the audiovisual version of our graphic novel, Germ Warfare: A Very Graphic History. The audiovisual won in the Non-Broadcast, Craft-Voiceover category of the 41st Annual Telly Awards.
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May 28, 2020
Commission Awarded Silver Telly for Germ Warfare: A Very Graphic History
The Commission is proud to announce that we are a recipient of a Silver Telly Award for the audiovisual version of our graphic novel, Germ Warfare: A Very Graphic History. The audiovisual won in the Non-Broadcast, Craft-Voiceover category of the 41st Annual Telly Awards.
May 27, 2020
Trump rants about fraud. But here’s the secret to keeping voting by mail secure.
Tom Ridge, the former Republican governor of Pennsylvania and Homeland Security secretary under former President George W. Bush, told NBC News the legitimacy of mail-in voting has "been pretty well validated by history."
May 24, 2020
What’s next? When it comes to infectious disease, time is not on our side
The commission is bipartisan and small, with three Republicans and three Democrats as members. We are honored to serve as co-chairs. The other members are former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, former Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Advisor Lisa Monaco, former Representative Jim Greenwood, and former Homeland Security Advisor Ken Wainstein.
May 22, 2020
Covid strengthens bonds between biotechs, regulators
But Jim Greenwood , president of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization trade group, said science is "galloping … and it is only bad policy that can stop all of that." In an industry where investors bet on getting a big drug win, price controls take away the incentive to invest.
May 22, 2020
All hands on deck: Biotechs find new ways to join battle against Covid
More than 70% of Covid research and development is being led by small companies, according to BIO. “It is the nature of small biotech companies to be nimble and innovative,” said BIO President Jim Greenwood. “I’m not all that surprised they can turn on a dime.”
May 21, 2020
Chronicle of a Pandemic Foretold
The Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense—jointly chaired by Tom Ridge, the first secretary of homeland security, under President George W. Bush, and a former Pennsylvania governor, and Joseph Lieberman, a former Democratic senator from Connecticut—has suggested that the operation could be located in the Office of the Vice President, with direct reporting to the president.
