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Former Pennsylvania first lady Ellen Casey dies after brief illness
Friday, August 11, 2023 10:10PM
PENNSYLVANIA (WPVI) — Former Pennsylvania first lady Ellen Casey has passed away at the age of 91.
The Casey family released a statement saying she died peacefully at Regional Hospital in Scranton on Friday. She passed after battling a brief illness.
The family did not state her cause of death.
“We are grateful to Ellen for her dedication to the people of Pennsylvania. May her memory be a blessing for her family and all of us who benefited from her service,” First Lady Lori Shapiro said in a statement.
Casey served alongside her husband, Governor Bob Casey Sr., between 1987 and 1995.
She was also the mother of current U.S. Senator Bob Casey Jr.
Governor Josh Shapiro has ordered flags to be lowered to half-staff in her honor.
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BioNTech settles with U.S. agency, University of Pennsylvania over Covid vaccine royalties
Vials containing the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) are displayed before being used at a mobile vaccine clinic, in Valparaiso, Chile, January 3, 2022.
Rodrigo Garrido | Reuters
BioNTech has entered into two separate settlement agreements with the U.S. National Institutes of Health and the University of Pennsylvania over the payment of royalties related to its COVID-19 vaccine, the company said in filings.
The German company, which partners with U.S. drugmaker Pfizer for its COVID-19 vaccine, said on Friday it would pay $791.5 million to the U.S. agency to resolve a default notice.
Separately, the company will pay $467 million to the University of Pennsylvania (Penn), which has agreed to dismiss a lawsuit brought against the vaccine maker accusing it of underpaying royalties.
BioNTech said partner Pfizer will reimburse it for up to $170 million of the royalties payable to Penn and $364.5 million of the royalties paid to the National Institutes of Health (NIH)for 2020-2023 vaccine sales.
NIH and Penn did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The U.S. government is owed royalty payments under the terms of the license BioNTech has taken for certain patents owned by the NIH, among other entities.
Penn’s lawsuit had said BioNTech owes the school a greater share of its worldwide vaccine sales for using “foundational” messenger RNA (mRNA) inventions developed by Penn professors and Nobel Prize winners Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman.
The company also amended its license agreements with both NIH and Penn, agreeing to pay a low single-digit percentage of its vaccine net sales to both the entities.
Both settlements include a framework for a license to use NIH and Penn’s patents in combination products.
The agreements do not constitute an admission of liability in either case, the company said.
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