Scientist.com, the leading R&D procurement-orchestration platform for the life sciences, today announced that its General Counsel, Sarah Harkcom, has been named Innovation Trailblazer at the 2025 European Legal Innovation & Technology Awards. Harkcom was recognized for architecting a unified, cross-border contracting model now adopted by many of the world’s top pharmaceutical companies and contract research organizations (CROs). The framework has already ...

Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE:6501, "Hitachi") and Southwest Power Pool, Inc. (SPP) today announced a strategic partnership to solve critical and imminent problems slowing the modernization of U.S. energy infrastructure. The partnership will produce an integrated AI-based solution that accelerates generator interconnection (GI) by reducing study analysis times by 80% while also informing faster, higher-quality decision-making by GI customers. This will markedly improve SPP’s ability to faci...