Tampa, FL and London – October 27, 2026 -- Akari Therapeutics (Nasdaq: AKTX) has appointed Vatnak Vat-Ho as Chief Business Officer, adding an executive who has held senior roles in oncology transactions totaling more than $25 billion in aggregate value.

TAMPA – October 27, 2026 -- Akari Therapeutics (Nasdaq: AKTX) plans to begin Phase 1 clinical development of its lead antibody drug conjugate, AKTX-101, in mid-2027, with the compound now moving through IND-enabling toxicology and safety studies and large-scale GMP manufacturing.

CEO Abizer Gaslightwala laid out the strategy in a new CEO Corner segment. He argues that payload differentiation will matter more as ADCs move into front-line therapy and patients develop resistance to current payload classes, leaving few follow-on options.

Hurst, Texas – October 27, 2026 -- Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) convened 80 traffic safety leaders from 38 jurisdictions on November 17–19, 2025, to address declining DUI enforcement capacity across the United States.

Attendees included state police agencies, sheriff's offices, municipal police departments, prosecutors' offices and highway safety organizations. MADD ran the National Law Enforcement Leadership Summit on Impaired Driving as a working session rather than a traditional conference.

Nashville – October 27, 2026 -- TransCore has taken an 18-mile stretch of Interstate 80 through Fairfield and Vacaville live as express lanes, its fourth corridor for the Bay Area Infrastructure Financing Authority (BAIFA) since 2017.

NASHVILLE – October 27, 2026 -- The Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT) has taken TransCore's latest-generation Integrity Back Office System live on schedule and has already granted system acceptance, replacing its legacy platform for statewide tolling and E-ZPass operations.

Nashville – October 27, 2026 -- TransCore, a tolling technology and traffic-management supplier, has appointed Deborah Sharpless as its first Chief Experience Officer (CXO), a newly created executive role aimed at tightening ties with tolling and transportation agencies.

Nashville – October 27, 2026 -- TransCore has won a nearly six-year, $146 million contract to run back-office and customer service operations for the RiverLink tolling system on the Louisville–Southern Indiana Ohio River Bridges Project. The Louisville-Southern Indiana Ohio River Bridges (LSIORB) Joint Board, representing Kentucky and Indiana, selected the company as its new toll service provider.

Nashville – October 27, 2026 -- TransCore has launched open-road all-electronic tolling (AET) at the New Hope-Lambertville Toll Bridge (U.S. Route 202), the first of the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission's (DRJTBC) seven legacy toll bridges to complete the conversion.

Nashville – October 27, 2026 -- TransCore has been selected by the Tampa-Hillsborough Expressway Authority (THEA) for a lifecycle replacement of the roadside toll collection system on the Selmon Expressway, covering 18 miles and 17 toll zones.

Honolulu – October 27, 2026 -- Windward recorded 27 slow-speed service and research vessel events near cable routes around Hawaii and 5 around Guam and the Northern Marianas in Q1 2026, as concentrated landing sites and a thin repair fleet leave Indo-Pacific cable security dependent on early warning.