Vir Biotechnology priced the company’s initial public offering (IPO) at $20 a share, at the bottom end of expectations, the latest underwhelming investment performance for a stock held by SoftBank Group Corp.’s Vision Fund.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation granted Watertown, Massachusetts-based Lyndra Therapeutics a $13 million grant to develop a once-a-month oral contraceptive.

Spero Therapeutics and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation teamed up to take on the challenge of a lung infection designated as a critical concern by the World Health Organization.

Germany-based Evotec SE followed up a string of collaborations with pharma companies with the $90 million acquisition of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-backed Just Biotherapeutics Inc.

Researchers with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York have had promising results with a cancer vaccine.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Jeff Bezos’ Day One Fund teamed up to donate $15 million to the Diagnostics Accelerator as part of the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation.

W2O – an innovative, analytics-driven, digital-first marketing and communications firm – announced an extension and expansion to the $50,000 three-year commitment to the Future Leaders in Healthcare Fellowship Program that it offers in collaboration with The LAGRANT Foundation. LAGRANT is an organization focused on increasing the number of ethnic minorities in the fields of advertising, communications, marketing and digital.

Johnson & Johnson Vision, a broad-based global leader in eye health, launched a worldwide campaign to #spotlightsight in honor of World Sight Day on October 11, 2018.

McCann Health announced that its Guinness World Record-breaking suicide prevention program, known as “The Orange Project” (TOP), will go to the NYC Pride Festival in partnership with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) to raise awareness of suicide prevention in the LGBT community.

The Vilcek Foundation announced the winners of the 2018 Vilcek Prizes in Biomedical Science. Awarded annually, the prizes call attention to the breadth of immigrant contributions to science in the United States. In parallel, the Vilcek Foundation also awards prizes for immigrant accomplishments in the arts.