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Stock in Agenus Inc. (Nasdaq:AGEN) rose more than 4 percent after the company announced it’s started enrolling patients in what it says is the largest vaccine trial ever funded by the National Cancer Institute in brain tumors. Garo Armen, CEO and founder of the Lexington, Mass.-based biotech, told Mass High Tech that the NCI is footing the bill for the entire 222-patient Phase 2 trial of Agenus’ Prophage G-200 compound targeting adults with recurrent glioblastoma multiforme (GBM). He estimates…

Bellevue-based Benaroya Capital Co., on Tuesday sold a full-block retail center in Seattle’s Uptown neighborhood for $31.7 million, public records show. Public records list the buyer as WRI Western Queen Anne Limited Liability Co. The property, Queen Anne Market Place, is at the base of Queen Anne Hill. A Bartell Drugs and a Metropolitan Market grocery are the anchor tenants of the property that is bounded by Roy and Mercer streets and First and Warren avenues north. Records show Benaroya bought…

Software company Partek Inc., in collaboration with the Kennedy Krieger Institute, received $1.8 million from the National Institutes of Health. The funds will be used to develop commercial software to analyze human genetic changes. The software will be able to pinpoint chromosomal abnormalities that underline conditions such as autism spectrum disorder, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. St. Charles-based Partek Inc. develops and markets analysis software for life sciences research and provides…

Duke University A Congressional survey of utility companies has revealed that the country's electric grid faces constant assault from hackers, with one power company reporting a whopping 10,000 attempted cyberattacks per month. US Reps. Edward Markey (D-MA) and Henry Waxman (D-CA) sent 15 questions to more than 150 utilities and received replies from 112 of them. Only 53 of those actually answered all the questions—the others provided incomplete responses or only "a few paragraphs containing non-specific information" without answering any of the questions. Results from those who did answer show utilities are under continuous assault: Read 8 remaining paragraphs | Comments

It pays to be in TV. On the list of 10-best paid CEOs of 2012 — the exclusive club inside an already-exclusive club — half are in the entertainment and media industry, according to executive pay research firm Equilar. The median pay for all CEOs in 2012 was $9.7 million. Top 10 of 2012: 1.