NIH awarded $95 million for Einstein-Mount Sinai Diabetes Research Center
On Jul. 27, 2020, Albert Einstein College of Medicine announced that it had received a $9.5 million, five-year…
Onconova Therapeutics submitted application for rigosertib to participate in federally funded human studies in COVID-19 disease
On Jul. 27, 2020, Onconova Therapeutics announced that it had submitted an application with the National Institute of…
Texas A&M College Station Bio-Manufacturing Center to produce COVID-19 vaccines
On Jul. 27, 2020, FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies (FDB) and Texas A&M announced they mass will produce vaccines as…
Moderna announced expansion of BARDA agreement to support larger phase 3 program for vaccine (mRNA-1273) against COVID-19
On Jul. 26, 2020, Moderna announced a modification to its contract with the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development…
LabCorp received authorization for COVID-19 sample pooling
On Jul. 25, 2020, LabCorpï¾® announced it received an Emergency Use Authorization from the FDA permitting diagnostic testing…
CIRM board approved two new discovery research projects for COVID-19
On Jul. 24, 2020, the governing Board of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) approved two new…
Kidney transplantation between people with HIV is safe, NIH study found
On Jul. 23, 2020, kidney transplantation from deceased donors with HIV to people living with both HIV and…
CDC released new resources and tools to support opening schools
On Jul. 23, 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released new science-based resources and tools…
Intravacc and Leiden University developed an animal replacement method for vaccines
On Jul. 23, 2020, Intravacc announced the publication of a study in Scientific Reports on alternatives to the…
Dynavax and Medigen announced collaboration to develop a novel adjuvanted COVID-19 vaccine candidate
On Jul. 23, 2020, Dynavax Technologies and Medigen Vaccine Biologics announced their collaboration to develop an adjuvanted vaccine…
Novavax and FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies initiated large scale manufacturing of COVID-19 vaccine candidate
On Jul. 23, 2020, Novavax and FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies announced an agreement to manufacture bulk drug substance for…
AXIM Biotechnologies released Rapid NeuCovix test results showing strong agreement with COVID-19-based neutralization tests
On Jul. 23, 2020, AXIM Biotechnologies announced development of NeuCovixTM, a rapid diagnostic test measuring levels of functional…
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Medigen Vaccines collaborated with Dynavax to develop novel adjuvanted COVID-19 vaccine candidate
On Jul. 23, 2020, Dynavax Technologies and Medigen Vaccine Biologics (MVC) announced a collaboration to develop an adjuvanted…
Evotec Biologics awarded $18.2 million DoD contract to produce monoclonal antibody products against COVID-19
On Jul. 22, 20120, Evotec announced that the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) had awarded its Seattle-based subsidiary,…
NIH leadership detailed unprecedented initiative to ramp up testing technologies for COVID-19
On Jul. 22, 2020, a scientific analysis of more than 2,000 brain scans found evidence for highly reproducible…
RedHill Biopharma accelerated phase 2/3 COVID-19 program with addition of Brazil and Mexico
On Jul. 22, 2020, RedHill Biopharma announced that it had submitted a Clinical Trial Application (CTA) with the…
Findings from real-world data study reveal higher risk of hospitalization and death among cancer patients with COVID-19
On Jul. 22, 2020, the FDA announced the data analyzed in collaboration with Syapse revealed a stark reality…
COVID-19 antibodies decay quickly after mild illness
On Jul. 22, 2020, University of California at Los Angeles researchers reported that they found. levels of antibodies…
COVID-19 Law Lab to provide vital legal information and support for the global COVID-19 response
On Jul. 22, 2020, the WHO and UNICEF announced the COVID-19 Law Lab initiative which will gather and…
University of British Columbia scientists sequenced the genomes of Canadians with COVID-19
On Jul. 22, 2020, through the Canadian COVID Genomics Network (CanCOGeN) ‘a new initiative was launched by Genome…
Preclinical study showed SARS-CoV-2 spike protein licensed by Oragenics from NIH produces neutralizing antibodies
On Jul. 22, 2020, Oragenics announced that the National Institutes of Health created stabilized pre-fusion spike protein (CoV-2…
Altimmune announced manufacturing agreement with Vigene Biosciences for AdCOVIDï¾™ single dose intranasal vaccine candidate for COVID-19
On Jul. 22, 2020, Altimmune announced an agreement with Vigene Biosciences to manufacture AdCOVIDTM, Altimmuneï¾’s single-dose intranasal vaccine…
BD received FDA approval for HPV test with extended genotyping capabilities
On Jul. 22, 2020, BD (Becton, Dickinson) announced that it had received approval for a pre-market approval (PMA)…
Pfizer and BioNTech announced agreement with US government for up to 600 million doses of mRNA-based vaccine candidate against SARS-CoV-2
On Jul. 22, 2020, Pfizer and BioNTech announced execution of an agreement with the U.S. Department of Health…
A common blood test identified which COVID-19 patients benefit and which are harmed from steroid treatment
On Jul. 22, 2020, a new study led by Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Health System…
Just – Evotec Biologics to produce monoclonal antibody products against COVID-19 for US Department of Defense
On Jul. 22, 2020, Evotec announced that the U.S. Department of Defense awarded its Seattle-based subsidiary, Just –…
Secrets of naked mole-rat cancer resistance unearthed
On Jul. 21, 2020, researchers at the University of Cambridge have shown for the first time that genes…
PerkinElmer released new dried blood spot based COVID-19 serology test
On Jul. 21, 2020, PerkinElmer announced the launch of a dry blood spot (DBS) based test for SARS-CoV-2…
GSK and CureVac announced strategic mRNA technology collaboration
On Jul. 21, 2020, GlaxoSmithKline and CureVac announced a strategic collaboration agreement for the research, development, manufacturing and…
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Experimental coronavirus vaccine reported safe and produces immune response
On Jul. 21, 2020, researchers announced that early results from the first COVID-19 vaccine candidate tested in people…