LabCorp launched test for Coronavirus (COVID-19)
On Mar. 5, 2020, LabCorp announced that it was making its LabCorp 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), NAA test…
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OPKO Health introduced Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) test
On Mar. 5, 2020, BioReference Laboratories, an OPKO Health company, announced it was offering a test for the…
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Cocrystal Pharma announced plans to advance Coronavirus program
On Mar. 6, 2020, Cocrystal Pharma announced it had initiated its Coronavirus program. Cocrystal previously entered into a…
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Luminex provided updates on critical efforts related to novel Coronavirus
On Mar. 4, 2020, Luminex announced they were working on multiple solutions to augment their NxTAG and ARIES…
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University of Washington Medicine deployed new test for coronavirus
On Mar. 4, 2020, the UW Medicine Clinical Virology Lab announced it had received U.S. Food and Drug…
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Vir Biotec and Alnylam expanded collaboration to advance RNAi therapeutics for Treatment of Coronavirus Infection
On Mar. 4, 2020, Vir Biotech and Alnylam Pharmaceuticals announced an expansion of their existing collaboration to include…
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Heat Biologics launched program to develop vaccine to protect against COVID-19 coronavirus
On Mar. 3, 2020, Heat Biologics announced the Company has formally launched a program within its wholly-owned subsidiary,…
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Biotechnology | COVID-19 | Diagnostics | Life Science History | Non-Profit Research | Therapeutics | Vaccine
Boston University NEIDL scientists joined international Coronavirus research effort
On Mar. 2, 2020, Boston’s top infectious disease researchers, including scientists from Boston University’s National Emerging Infectious Diseases…
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Mateon updated Rapid Antiviral Response Program Initially targeting COVID-19
On Mar. 2, 2020, Mateon Therapeutics reported the company had been evaluating its therapeutic and AI platforms to…
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Innovation Pharma provided scientific rationale and clinical development perspectives for Brilacidin as potential Coronavirus treatment
On Mar. 2, 2020, Innovation Pharma provided the scientific rationale and clinical development perspectives for Brilacidin, the Company’s…
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Biotechnology | COVID-19 | Diagnostics | Infectious Disease | Therapeutics | Vaccine | WHO
UN released $15 million to help vulnerable countries battle the spread of the coronavirus
On Mar. 1, 2020, the United Nations Humanitarian Chief Mark Lowcock released US$15 million from the Central Emergency…
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University of Washington Medicine received FDA permission to conduct coronavirus tests
On Feb. 29, 2020, the University of Washington (UW) Medicine Clinical Virology Lab announced it had received U.S….
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Mutations can reveal how the coronavirus moves, but they’re easy to overinterpret
On Feb. 28, 2020, immediately after Christian Drosten published a genetic sequence of the novel coronavirus online, he…
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CDC | COVID-19 | Diagnostics | NIH | Therapeutics | Vaccine
COVID-19 a reminder of the challenge of emerging infectious diseases
On Feb. 28, 2020, commentary appeared in The New England Journal of Medicine that discussed the emergence and…
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Altimmune Completed First Development Milestone Toward a Single-Dose Intranasal COVID-19 Vaccine
On Feb. 28, 2020, Altimmune announced the advancement of a novel single-dose, intranasal vaccine using Altimmune’s proprietary technology…
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Innovation Pharma shipped Brilacidin to U.S. Regional Biocontainment Laboratory for research against Coronavirus COVID-19
On Feb. 27, 2020, Innovation Pharma announced the Company had signed a Material Transfer Agreement (MTA) with one…
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New images of novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 made available
On Feb. 26, 2020, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases’ Rocky Mountain Laboratories (NIAID-RML) announced it…
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Tonix Pharma announced collaboration with Southern Research to develop vaccine to protect against COVID-19 based on Horsepox virus
On Feb. 26, 2020, Southern Research announced today that it has entered into a strategic collaboration with New…
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Novavax advanced development of novel COVID-19 vaccine
On Feb. 26, 2020, Novavax announced progress in its efforts to develop a novel vaccine to protect against…
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NIH clinical trial of remdesivir to treat COVID-19 began for adults with coronavirus disease
On Feb. 25, 2020, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that a randomized, controlled clinical trial to…
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Pilot clinical trial in China to test University of British Columbia researcher’s findings as a targeted therapy for COVID-19
On Feb. 25, 2020, a University of British Columbia (UBC) researcher was part of an international team working…
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Vir Biotec and WuXi Biologics announced collaboration for global development of antibodies to treat COVID-19
On Feb. 25, 2020, Vir Biotech and WuXi Biologics announced a development and manufacturing collaboration to advance and…
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Biotechnology | COVID-19 | Diagnostics | Infectious Disease | Non-Profit Research | Therapeutics | Vaccine
New technique helped uncover how Coronaviruses enter cells
On Feb. 24, 2020, researchers at National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease’s Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton,…
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Clover and GSK announced research collaboration to evaluate Coronavirus vaccine candidate with pandemic adjuvant system
On Feb. 24, 2020, Clover Biopharmaceuticals announced a research collaboration with GSK for its protein-based coronavirus vaccine candidate…
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Moderna shipped mRNA vaccine against novel Coronavirus (mRNA-1273) for phase 1 study
On Feb. 24, 2020, Moderna announced it had released the first batch of mRNA-1273, the Company’s vaccine against…
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Texas Biomed established team to study SARS-CoV-2, new coronavirus
On Feb. 24, 2020, Scientists at Texas Biomed began work on the novel coronavirus known as SARS-CoV-2. A…
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COVID-19 coronavirus spike holds infectivity details
On Feb. 24, 2020, researchers reported that the spikes crowning the new coronavirus that causes COVID-19 atypical pneumonia…
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Biotechnology | COVID-19 | Diagnostics | Infectious Disease | NIH | Therapeutics | Vaccine
NIH scientists identified atomic structure of novel Coronavirus protein
On Feb. 19, 2020, NIAID scientists working with investigators from the University of Texas at Austin identified the…
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Sanofi joined with U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services to advance novel coronavirus vaccine
On Feb. 18, 2020, Sanofi announced it had leveraged previous development work for a SARS vaccine which may…
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Medigen Vaccine Biologics and NIH collaborated to develop COVID-19 vaccine
On Feb. 16, 2020, Medigen Vaccine Biologics (MVB) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced they had…
