Psychedelic drug MDMA could help treat PTSD – but there’s a reason it’s not widely available

Psychedelic drug MDMA may help people manage PTSD symptoms. But it should only be used in certain contexts, according to two ...
The Next Web

German biotech Kupando raises €10M more to take its innate immunity drug into the clinic

Kupando has raised an additional €10M in Series A financing, bringing its total to €23M, to fund Phase 1b trials of KUP101.
STAT

With federal research funding uncertain, states debate new science initiatives

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. On paper, little appears to have changed for UMass Chan Medical ...
Duluth News Tribune

Federal, state funding for Duluth lead line replacement uncertain

Federal funding is only guaranteed through 2027, and without action by the Minnesota Legislature, state funding will run out this year. A crew member with Hanco Utilities uses a concrete saw while ...
CNBC

Democrats send Trump DHS funding counteroffer as agency shutdown grinds on

Congressional Democrats sent a counteroffer to the White House and Republicans in negotiations to reopen the Department of Homeland Security. Democrats want increased restrictions on immigration ...
nationalmortgageprofessional.com

Brokers First Funding Taps Industry Vets To Drive Non-QM Growth

BFF adds Frank Nese and Lito Gonzales in senior sales leadership roles to drive growth and expand its Western sales footprint Brokers First Funding (BFF), a wholesale lender focused on non-agency and ...
Finextra

Funding Is Not the End of the Line: What Comes Next

Lenders DON'T just underwrite profits! Closing a major loan or investment can feel like crossing a finish line. The contracts are signed, the funds arrive, and for a moment it seems that all the hard ...
CNBC

Anthropic closes $30 billion funding round as cash keeps flowing into top AI startups

Anthropic said it closed a $30 billion funding round at a $380 billion post-money valuation. It's the second-biggest private financing round on record for tech, following OpenAI's raise of over $40 ...
The News Journal

DHS shutdown nears; here's the latest DHS funding update today, vote

The odds a government shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) happens Friday, Feb. 13, is highly likely as a DHS funding deadline looms amid a fiery Democrat and Republican debate over ...
JD Supra

New York’s Consumer Litigation Funding Act: Will it Curb the Onslaught of Litigation Funding and Potential Lawyer Liability?

Recently we have written about some of the pitfalls associated with litigation funding when it comes to attorney liability (see here). Thereafter, we discussed how a New York appellate court, for the ...
The New York Times

Congress Quietly Used Funding Law to Try to Rein In Trump on Spending

Dozens of measures sprinkled throughout the recently enacted spending package seek to tie the Trump administration’s hands on funding, an act of quiet bipartisan resistance to efforts to trample ...