Mar­tin Shkre­li con­tin­ues col­lege tour with stops at Har­vard, UMass; Ver­nalis picks up $3M mile­stone

• Mar­tin Shkre­li’s ap­pear­ance at UC Davis was scrapped due to stu­dent protests, but he may get a bet­ter re­cep­tion at Har­vard and UMass Boston, where he’s sched­uled to make ap­pear­ances this week. Shkre­li’s col­lege tour is rolling out ahead of his sched­uled tri­al this sum­mer, where he will face fraud charges. The in­fa­mous biotech ex­ec and for­mer Twit­ter troll — he was banned re­cent­ly — achieved con­sid­er­able no­to­ri­ety when his com­pa­ny, Tur­ing, ac­quired an old gener­ic and raised the price 5000%.

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