Jul17Mon
FDA accepts for priority review Spark Therapeutics’ gene therapy for blindness
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Jul17Mon
#MembersInAction: Join our members from the Rooney Family in supporting the 2017 Philadelphia Charity Ball
Jul13Thu
Congratulations to Spark Therapeutics‘ CFO, Stephen Webster, on being named to the Philadelphia Business Journal‘s CFOs of the Year list.
To view the full list, please click HERE.
Q&A: Ireland’s Leo Varadkar on Brexit, Trump and Keeping Ireland ‘At the Center of the World’
Leo Varadkar is quite a few firsts rolled into one. At 38, he is his country’s youngest ever Taoiseach, or Prime Minister. He’s also the first from an ethnic minority background, and the first to have come out as gay. His appointment in June is symbolic of the shift in social values in the once staunchly Catholic country.
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Anti-American countries get far more green cards than than the Irish do
By Niall O’Dowd
IrishCentral.com
The numbers from the annual diversity lottery visa are out and they make this Irishman’s blood boil. We’ve been had as a nation, as one of the founder countries who helped create this great republic.
What the 1965 immigration reform act has done for the Irish is made new Irish immigrants as scarce as hen’s teeth.
And yes I know, it was Senator Edward Kennedy who played the major role in drafting that law. He tried to reverse its anti-Irish outcome before he died, but it was too late.
Now comes just the latest example. Each year 50,000 US Green Cards are allocated among 35 countries who are disadvantaged by current immigration law.
