Moderna announced funding award from CEPI to accelerate development of mRNA vaccine against novel Coronavirus
On Jan. 23, 2020, Moderna announced a new collaboration to develop an mRNA vaccine against the novel coronavirus…
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World’s first meningitis B national infant vaccination programme showed 75% drop in cases over three years
On Jan. 23, 2020, two independent meningitis B studies were published in the New England Journal of Medicine…
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Vir Biotec applying multiple platforms to address public health risk from coronavirus
On Jan. 22, 2020, Vir Biotech announced it was working to rapidly determine whether its previously identified anti-coronavirus…
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Johns Hopkins engineering professor Dr Lauren Gardner created the COVID dashboard used around the world to track the novel coronavirus outbreak
On Jan. 22, 2020, Johns Hopkins engineering professor Dr. Lauren Gardner created the COVID dashboard used around the…
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deCODE reported a genome-wide association meta-analysis of 69,189 cases and 702,199 controls from Iceland and UK biobank
On Jan. 20, 2020, deCODE genetics reported a genome-wide association meta-analysis of 69,189 cases and 702,199 controls from…
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TB Alliance announced partnership with Hongqi Pharma to commercialize therapy for d Drug-resistant TB in China
On Jan. 17, 2020, the Non-profit drug developer TB Alliance granted Shenyang Hongqi Pharmaceuticals , a subsidiary of…
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Lack of new antibiotics threatens global efforts to contain drug-resistant infections
On Jan. 17, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported that declining private investment and lack of innovation…
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Karmanos Cancer Institute was awarded the President’s Trophy for second year in a row by McLaren Health Care
On Jan. 16, 2020, the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute received the President’s Trophy for the second year…
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US DoD exercised option for IXIARO vaccine for Japanese encephalitis with Valneva
On Jan. 14, 2020, Valneva announced that the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) had exercised an option to…
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Just – Evotec Biologics initiated construction of first JPOD Facility in North America
On Jan. 14, 2020, Evotec announced that the wholly-owned Seattle based company Just – Evotec Biologics had initiated…
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Secretary Azar declared Public Health Emergency for the U.S. for 2019 Novel Coronavirus
On Jan 31, 2020, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex M. Azar II declared a public health emergency…
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Cleveland Clinic study identified genetic anomaly associated with poor response to common asthma treatment
On Jan. 13, 2020, a new Cleveland Clinic study uncovered a genetic anomaly associated with poor response to…
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Vanderbilt researchers discovered a new genetic disease
On Jan. 13, 2020, Vanderbilt University Medical Center researcher Ela Knapik, MD and her colleagues announced they had…
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University of Vermont and Tufts University researchers build the first living robots
On Jan. 13, 2020, a team of scientists from the University of Vermont and Tufts University annouced they…
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Mayo Clinic research discovered a molecular switch for repairing central nervous system disorders
On Jan. 10, 2020, Mayo Clinic researchers reported that they had discovered a molecular switch for repairing central…
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Penn Medicine birth marked a milestone in uterus transplant clinical trial
On Jan. 9, 2020, Penn Medicine announced the birth of Benjamin Thomas Gobrecht: his mother, 33-year-old Jennifer Gobrecht,…
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COVID-19 | Diagnostics | WHO
Novel coronavirus identified as cause of a cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan, China
On Jan. 9, 2020, the World Health Organization announced that a novel coronavirus had been identified as the…
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Mayo Clinic sequenced 100K participants to build genomic database for improved care and research in collaboration with Helix
On Jan. 9, 2020, Mayo Clinic announced it was creating a library of genomic sequencing data on 100,000…
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O’Neal Cancer Center welcomed Sleckman as new director
On Jan. 8, 2020, the University of Alabama at Birmingham Comprehensive Cancer Center (UAB) announced that world-renowned researcher…
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FDA approved 3D-printed airway stents developed by Cleveland Clinic doctor
On Jan. 8, 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved patient-specific airway stents developed by Cleveland…
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Xencor and Gilead entered license agreement for use of XmAb antibody technologies in investigational agents for HIV
On Jan. 8, 2020, Xencor announced a technology license agreement in which Gilead Sciences will access Xencor’s Xtend…
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Mayo Clinic genetic testing provided insights to sudden unexplained deaths in Amish community
On Jan. 8, 2020, Mayo Clinic researchers reported that they had used post-mortem genetic testing to find the…
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Thomas J. Lynch Jr became the sixth president of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
On Jan. 7, 2020, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center announced Dr. Thomas J. Lynch Jr. as the…
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Vanderbilt University Medical Center professor Ege T Kavalali, Ph.D. received a Humboldt Research Award
On Dec. 31, 2019, Ege T. Kavalali, Ph.D., professor and acting chair of the Department of Pharmacology in…
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Cases of pneumonia detected in Wuhan, China were first reported to the WHO
On Dec. 31, 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the Coronavirus outbreak a global pandemic. To date,…
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Sinovac announced approval of varicella vaccine for prevention of varicella/zoster virus (chickenpox) in children
On Dec. 27, 2019, Sinovac Biotech announced that the China National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) had approved and…
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Medigen Vaccine Biologics completed enrollment of phase III MRCT For EV71 vaccine
On Dec. 25, 2019, Medigen Vaccine Biologics (MVB) announced it had completed the enrollment of phase III multi-region…
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NIH established the Infectious Diseases Clinical Research Consortium
On Dec. 24, 2019, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) established the Infectious Diseases Clinical…
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Karmanos Cancer Institute received the 2020 Women’s Choice Award
On Dec. 23, 2019, the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute received the 2020 Women’s Choice Award as one…
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New MERS Coronavirus vaccine clinical trial started in Saudi Arabia
On Dec. 20, 2019, Vaccitech’s partner, the University of Oxford’s Jenner Institute, in collaboration with The King Abdullah…
