The new group, known as the Medicines for Malaria Venture, aims to secure the registration of an average of one new anti-malarial drug every five years.
The success of the venture, expected to secure the future of facilities which had been threatened with closure, led to the councils being named as winners in the financial excellence category of last year's Public Services Awards.
This month, the trust fired back in court with a motion to dismiss, arguing that the lawsuit amounted to nothing more than a "for-profit commercial venture trying to secure a huge public bailout for longstanding problems of its own making and for which it bears the sole legal responsibility".
A Los Altos startup called Afero raised $20.3 million in a new round of venture funding to secure connected devices, from toys and arcade games to medical equipment.
North Korean fishermen are under intense state pressure from the Kim Jong Un regime to bring in more fish and boost protein sources in the country, according to United Press International, and are likely being forced to take more risks and venture further out to secure a catch.
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Some project developers had to sell assets, and a lot of clean-technology start-up companies were unable to secure venture capital.
And Digital Owl and a handful of other homegrown upstarts are beginning to secure venture capital from companies that once overlooked Florida.
The British oil major and Husky, a Canadian producer controlled by Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing, plan to spend at least $5.5 billion initially on the venture, which furthers efforts to secure markets for Canada's huge oil sands resource.
After failing to secure venture capital funding, Rubin turned to cellphone development, the suit alleges.
