LabCorp received authorization for COVID-19 sample pooling
On Jul. 25, 2020, LabCorpﾮ announced it received an Emergency Use Authorization from the FDA permitting diagnostic testing…
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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…
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Biotechnology | COVID-19 | FDA | Medicine | Therapeutics | Vaccine
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…
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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…
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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…
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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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Biotechnology | COVID-19 | FDA
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Biotechnology | COVID-19 | Diagnostics | Genomics | Infectious Disease | Non-Profit Research | Vaccine
University of British Columbia scientists sequence genomes of Canadians with COVID-19
On Jul. 22, 2020, through the Canadian COVID Genomics Network (CanCOGeN) ‘a new initiative was launched by Genome…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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Altimmune announced manufacturing agreement with Vigene Biosciences for AdCOVIDﾙ single dose intranasal vaccine candidate for COVID-19
On Jul. 22, 2020, Altimmune announced an agreement with Vigene Biosciences to manufacture AdCOVIDTM, Altimmuneﾒs single-dose intranasal vaccine…
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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)…
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Experimental Coronavirus vaccine is safe and produced immune response
On Jul. 21, 2020, National Institutes of Health (NIH) researchers reported early results from the first COVID-19 vaccine…
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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…
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Mesa Biotech received $15.4 million funding from the NIH for accelerated scale-up and deployment
On Jul. 21, 2020, Mesa Biotech announced it had been awarded a contract up to $15.4 million from…
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GSK and CureVac announced strategic mRNA technology collaboration
On Jul. 21, 2020, GlaxoSmithKline and CureVac announced the signing of a strategic collaboration agreement for the research, development,…
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Experimental coronavirus vaccine reported safe and produces immune response
On Jul. 21, 2020, researchers from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that early results from the…
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Bio-Techne announced launch of ExoCovid-19 test for detection of SARS-CoV-2 In patient samples
On Jul. 21, 2020, Bio-Techne announced that Exosome Diagnostics, a Bio-Techne brand, had completed validation testing for COVID-19…
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BD received additional orders for 177 million injection devices for US, Canada COVID-19 vaccine preparations
On Jul. 21, 2020, BD (Becton, Dickinson) announced additional pandemic orders for needles and syringes from the U.S….
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COVID-19 vaccine trials conducted at Washington University, Saint Louis University
On Jul. 21, 2020, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the Saint Louis…
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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…
