WuXi Congress

Could Congress hinder future Middletown pharma campus?

Jacob OwensBusiness, Headlines

The Congressional committee that pushed for a ban or sale of the social media platform TikTok is now scrutinizing a Chinese pharmaceutical company that happens to be developing a major taxpayer-supported manufacturing campus in Middletown. In January, the committee’s leadership introduced legislation that would prohibit the company called WuXi AppTec – as well as certain other Chinese-owned firms – from receiving federal …

Delaware DNA

300 people pack Delaware DNA Life Sciences Conference

Betsy PriceBusiness, Headlines

Two decades ago, a group of Delaware educators, businessmen and politicians founded a biosciences institute to help the state push into that sector of the economy. Gov. John Carney told the 300 people who packed the first Delaware DNA Life Science Conference Thursday that he could draw a line directly from that day to drug company WuXi STA’s announcement last …