Bio-Techne announced opening of GMP manufacturing facility in Twin Cities
On Sept. 30, 2020, Bio-Techne announced the opening of its approximately 61,000 square foot state-of-the-art GMP (Good Manufacturing…
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AXIM Biotechnologies filed patent for world’s first face mask designed to capture SARS-CoV-2 COVID-19
On Sept. 29, 2020, AXIM Biotechnologies announced that it had filed a provisional patent for a first-in-class face…
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Tonix Pharma completed the purchase of a facility to house advanced development center for vaccine programs
On Sept. 28, 2020, Tonix Pharmaceuticals announced that it had completed the purchase a 40,000 square foot facility…
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Pascal Biosciences confirmed specific cannabinoids combat Coronavirus
On Sept. 23, 2020, Pascal Biosciences announced the Company had confirmed an earlier report that certain cannabinoids block…
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Brazil approved RedHill Biopharma’s phase 2/3 COVID-19 study with opaganib
On Sept. 22, 2020, RedHill Biopharma announced approval from the Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency (ANVISA) for its ongoing…
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XBiotech to develop human antibody combination as candidate treatment for influenza-COVID-19 co-infection
On Sept. 21, 2020, XBiotech announced it was developing a new breakthrough candidate therapy it calls FLUVID for…
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Lilly and Amgen announced manufacturing collaboration for COVID-19 antibody therapies
On Sept. 17, 2020, Eli Lilly and Amgen announced a global antibody manufacturing collaboration to significantly increase the supply…
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Atossa Therapeutics received second positive safety assessment in clinical study of AT-301 Coronavirus nasal spray
On Sept. 17, 2020, Atossa Therapeutics announced a positive interim safety assessment from the second cohort of healthy…
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COVID-19 | FDA | Therapeutics
AXIM Biotechnologies filed Emergency Use Authorization with COVID-19 rapid diagnostic test for neutralizing antibodies
On Sept. 16, 2020, AXIM Biotechnologies announced that it had filed an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) application with…
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New anti-infective drugs had a 14% speed advantage vs other drugs from 2000-2019
On Sept. 15, 2020, the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development reported that new anti-infective drugs…
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Soligenix announced publication demonstrating thermostabilization of filovirus vaccine antigens
On Sept. 15, 2020, Soligenix announced publication of nonclinical results characterizing filovirus protein antigens (including for Ebola and…
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Tonix Pharma enrolled first patient in COV-LOGIC study to assess antibody and T cell responses to SARS-CoV-2
On Sept. 15, 2020,Tonix Pharmaceuticals announced that the first patient was enrolled in the observational COV-LOGIC study (TNX-C001),…
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UTHealth joined NIH trial to test antibodies and other experimental outpatient treatments for COVID-19 pneumonia
On Sept. 15, 2020, the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) announced that a study…
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Biotechnology | Disease | Neurology | NIH | Therapeutics
NIH augmented large scale study of Alzheimer’s disease biomarkers
On Sept. 14, 2020, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that it had added funding for more…
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Mateon global study for Artemisinin intervention against COVID-19 cleared for patient enrollment in India
On Sept. 14, 2020, Mateon Therapeutics announced that its global study based on its ARTI-19 protocol for Artemisinin…
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Biotechnology | COVID-19 | NIH | Therapeutics
Baricitinib in combination with remdesivir reduced time to recovery in hospitalized patients with COVID-19 in ACTT-2 Trial
On Sept. 14, 2020, Eli Lilly and Incyte announced initial data from the Adaptive COVID-19 Treatment Trial (ACTT-2)…
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Pascal Biosciences and SoRSE Technology announced partnership for cannabinoid drug development and cancer clinical trials
On Sept. 14, 2020, Pascal Biosciences and SoRSE Technology announced they had entered into a collaborative research agreement…
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FDA approved Trelegy Ellipta as first once-daily single inhaler triple therapy for treatment of both asthma and COPD in the U.S.
On Sept. 10, 2020, GlaxoSmithKline and Innoviva announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had approved a…
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Biology | Biotechnology | COVID-19 | Diagnostics | Disease | Infectious Disease | Oncology | Therapeutics
NanoString announced new GeoMx COVID-19 Consortium, part of the GeoMx Translational Leadership Network
On Sept. 9, 2020, NanoString Technologies announced the formation of the GeoMx Translational Leadership Network (GTLN). The GTLN…
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Biopharma leaders united to stand with science
On Sept. 8, 2020, the CEOs of AstraZeneca, BioNTech, GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, Moderna, Novavax, Pfizer, and…
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RedHill Biopharma’s opaganib demonstrated complete inhibition of SARS-CoV-2
On Sept. 8, 2020, RedHill Biopharma announced that opaganib demonstrated potent inhibition of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes…
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Biotechnology | COVID-19 | Infectious Disease | Life Science History | Medicine | Non-Profit Research | Stem Cell | Therapeutics
California’s Stem Cell Agency and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative partnered to create COVID-19 database
On Sept. 8, 2020, a new collaboration between the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) and the Chan…
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UT Southwestern researchers showed how mutations in DNA packaging machines cause cancer
On Sept. 7, 2020, research from the Children’s Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern (CRI) determined how…
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RedHill Biopharma’s Opaganib awarded COVID-19 grant by State of Pennsylvania
On Sept. 3, 2020, RedHill Biopharma announced the selection of opaganib, a proprietary, first-in-class, orally-administered, sphingosine kinase-2 (SK2)…
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Lenzilumab COVID-19 case-control study published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings Journal
On Sept. 3, 2020, Humanigen announced the first case-control data of lenzilumab in severe COVID-19 demonstrated an 80%…
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Biotechnology | CDC | Infectious Disease | Influenza | NIH | Therapeutics
U.S. Government exercised option to purchase additional RAPIVAB from BioCryst for delivery to Strategic National Stockpile
On Sept. 3, 2020, BioCryst Pharmaceuticals announced that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) had…
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Mesoblast announced first patients dosed in phase 2/3 trial for COVID-19 ARDS
On Sept. 2, 2020, Mesoblast announced that it had received ethics approval to include Australian hospitals in the…
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Janssen discontinued Pimodivir influenza development program
On Sept. 2, 2020, the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson announced that it had made a…
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Biotechnology | Diagnostics | HIV | Infectious Disease | Non-Profit Research | Organ Transplant | Therapeutics
UT Southwestern performed first HIV-positive-to-HIV-positive organ transplant in Texas
On Sept. 2, 2020, UT Southwestern (UTSW) announced that it had performed the first HIV-positive-to-HIV-positive organ transplant in…
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Titers of antibodies against SARS-CoV2 did not decline within four months
On Sept. 1, 2020, scientists at deCODE genetics in Iceland, a subsidiary of Amgen, published a study in…
