OHSU study revealed SARS-CoV-2 reacted to antibodies of virus from 2003 SARS outbreak
On Jan. 25, 2021, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) announced a new study demonstrated that antibodies generated…
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Biotechnology | Cardiology | Disease | FDA | Therapeutics
FDA approved Aurinia Pharmaceuticals LUPKYNIS (voclosporin) for adults with active lupus nephritis
On Jan. 22, 2021, Aurinia Pharmaceuticals announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had approved LUPKYNISTM…
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Novavax and Government of Canada finalize advance purchase agreement for COVID-19 vaccine
On Jan. 22, 2021, Novavax announced that it had finalized an agreement with the Government of Canada to…
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Zoetis Introducted Poulvac® Procerta™ HVT-IBD vaccine for infectious bursal disease
On Jan. 21, 2021, Zoetis announced it had as expanded its line of recombinant vector vaccines with the…
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Developmental origins of eczema and psoriasis discovered
On Jan. 21, 2021, scientists at the Wellcome Sanger Institute announced they had created a highly detailed map…
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Moderna announced first participant dosed in phase 1/2 study of COVID-19 vaccine in Japan led by Takeda
On Jan. 21, 2021, Moderna announced that the first participant has been dosed in the Phase 1/2 study…
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Cue’s Molecular, point-of-care COVID-19 tests available under HHS and DoD pilot program
On Jan. 19, 2021, Cue Health announced that its molecular, point-of-care COVID-19 Tests were being distributed to five…
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Rapid blood test identified COVID-19 patients at high risk of severe disease
On Jan. 15, 2021, scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis announced that that a…
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Mammoth Biosciences secured U.S. DoD award to develop CRISPR-based diagnostics and biosurveillance platforms
On Jan. 14, 2021, Mammoth Biosciences announced that it had secured a subcontract with MRIGlobal, the prime contractor…
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Blood test showed promise for early detection of acute heart transplant rejection
On Jan. 13, 2021, researchers announced they had developed a blood test that could make it possible for…
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NIAID scientists studied salmonella swimming behavior as clues to infection
On Jan. 13, 2021, National Institutes of Health scientists and their colleagues announced they had identified a S….
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Oxford Immunotec’s T-SPOT SARS-CoV-2 test used to measure efficacy of Valneva’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate
On Jan. 13, 2021, Oxford Immunotec announced the start of a collaboration with Valneva whereby it will perform…
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Mateon announced positive interim results from its ARTI-19 clinical trial evaluating ARTIVeda against COVID-19
On Jan. 13, 2021, Mateon Therapeutics reported positive interim results from its ARTI-19 clinical trial evaluating ARTIVedaTM against…
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Tests at an Oregon mink farm showed SARS-CoV-2 still present with no virus mutations
On Jan. 13, 2021, the Oregon Department of Agriculture (ODA) continueed to test, survey, and trap at an…
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Rising protocol design complexity reported driving rapid growth in clinical trial data volume
On Jan. 12, 2021, the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development (Tufts CSDD) reported that ever…
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Swissmedic authorized COVID-19 vaccine Moderna for Use in Switzerland
On Jan. 12, 2021, Moderna announced that Swissmedic, the Swiss Agency for Therapeutic Products, had authorized the COVID-19…
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Biotechnology | Disease | Genomics | Oncology
UTSW researchers identified new gene involved in breast cancer growth
On Jan. 12, 2021, a team researchers from the University of Texas Southwestern (UTSW) announced they had identified…
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Biotechnology | CRISPR | FDA | Therapeutics
FDA cleared initiation of the Editas Medicine’s EDIT-301 clinical trial using CRISPR/Cas12a gene editing
On Jan. 11, 2021, Editas Medicine announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had cleared the initiation…
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Baxter Biopharma Solutions announced sterile manufacturing agreement for Novavax COVID-19 vaccine
On Jan. 11, 2021, Baxter announced an agreement to provide sterile manufacturing services for NVX-CoV2373, Novavax COVID-19 recombinant…
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T2 Biosystems T2SARS-CoV-2 panel proved effective with global rise in variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus
On Jan. 11, 2021, T2 Biosystems announced that its T2SARS-CoV-2 Panel – a molecular diagnostic test that detects…
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Biotechnology | COVID-19 | HIV | Influenza | Vaccine
Moderna announced three new development programs in infectious disease vaccines
On Jan. 11, 2021, Moderna announced that it was expanding its pipeline of innovative vaccines with three new…
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AXIM released manuscript describing rapid point-of-care test that measures COVID-19 neutralizing antibodies
On Jan. 11, 2021, AXIM Biotechnologies announced that it had released a preprint of its manuscript describing the…
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Roche’s Xofluza approved by the EC for treatment of influenza, first new influenza antiviral in almost 20 years
On Jan. 11, 2021, Roche announced that the European Commission (EC) had approved Xofluza (baloxavir marboxil) for the…
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Biotechnology | Diagnostics | Disease | Oncology | Radiology | Therapeutics
American Cancer Society reported largest one-year drop in cancer mortality from 1991-2017
On Jan. 8, 2021, the American Cancer Society reported that the death rate from cancer in the U.S….
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UK medicines regulator approved Moderna vaccine as third COVID-19 vaccine
On Jan. 8, 2021, the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Moderna has today been given regulatory approval for supply…
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UK Medicines and Healthcare products regulatory agency authorized use of COVID-19 Vaccine Moderna
On Jan. 8, 2021, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) announced it had accepted the recommendation…
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In vitro study showed Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine elicited antibodies that neutralize SARS-CoV-2 with mutation
On Jan. 8, 2021, Pfizer and BioNTech announced results from an in vitro study conducted by Pfizer and…
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BioNTech confirmed EC’s proposal to purchase additional doses of vaccine
On Jan. 8, 2021, BioNTech announced that it was in talks with the European Commission (EC) about an…
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Twist Bioscience supplied Centers for Disease Control and Prevention with custom SARS-CoV-2 synthetic RNA controls
On Jan. 7, 2021, Twist Bioscience announced it would supply the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…
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Novavax finalized agreement with Commonwealth of Australia for 51 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine
On Jan. 7, 2021, Novavax announced that it had executed an Advance Purchase Agreement with the Commonwealth of…
