LabCorp launched new neutralizing antibody test
On Jun. 25, 2020, LabCorp announced the launch of a new test that can be used to assess…
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Infectious Disease | USDA | Vaccine | WHO
The 10th Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was declared over
On Jun. 25, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the end of the 10th outbreak of Ebola…
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Symbiosis and AstraZeneca signed supply agreement for sterile manufacture of COVID-19 vaccine for clinical trials
On Jun. 24, 2020, Symbiosis Pharmaceutical Services, an India-based specialist provider of pharmaceutical and vaccine development services, announced…
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Sinovac received approval from China for its quadrivalent influenza vaccine
On Jun. 24, 2020, Sinovac Biotech announced the China National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) issued a product license…
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Mateon selected by IBM Watson Health for use of IBM Clinical Development Solution to support clinical COVID-19 vaccine candidates
On Jun. 24, 2020, Oncotelic, a wholly owned subsidiary of Mateon Therapeutics, announced that IBM has granted access…
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Texas A&M researchers testing COVID-19 vaccine candidates for iBio
On Jun. 24, 2020, a team of scientists at Texas A&M University announced it is working with iBio…
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Universal mosquito vaccine tested
On Jun. 23, 2020, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced it had tested a ‘universal mosquito vaccine’…
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Flu mutation study suggested universal flu vaccine may be even more challenging than expected
On Jun. 23, 2020, scientists at Scripps Research reported that some common strains of influenza have the potential…
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Sanofi and Translate Bio expanded collaboration and license agreement to develop mRNA vaccines for infectious diseases
On Jun. 23, 2020, Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines global business unit of Sanofi, and Translate Bio, a clinical-stage…
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INOVIO received $71 million contract from U.S. Department of Defense to scale up manufacture of CELLECTRA 3PSP smart device
On Jun. 23, 2020, INOVIO announced it had received $71 million funding from the U.S. Department of Defense…
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Intranasal immunization with Intravacc’s experimental whooping cough vaccine confered broad protection
On Jun. 22, 2020, Intravacc announced promising results of a preclinical study with its experimental whooping cough vaccine…
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Pfizer announced start of four phase 3 clinical trials for investigational vaccines
On Jun. 22, 2020, Pfizer announced the initiation of four phase 3 clinical trials within its current pipeline…
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Taconic Biosciences announced distribution of critical COVID-19 mouse model
On Jun. 22, 2020, Taconic Biosciences announced an exclusive agreement with the University of Texas Medical Branch at…
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Biotechnology | Clinical Research | COVID-19 | Diagnostics | Infectious Disease | Pharmaceutical | Vaccine
GSK COVID-19 vaccine development collaboration with Clover Biopharmaceuticals began clinical trials
On Jun. 19, 2020, GSK announced that a scientific collaboration with Clover Pharmaceuticals to develop an adjuvanted COVID-19…
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Tonix Pharma and Southern Research announced expansion of COVID-19 vaccine collaboration
On Jun. 18, 2020, Tonix Pharmaceuticals announced an expansion of its strategic collaboration with Southern Research to include…
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Oxford University and Bvlgari announced collaboration to fight COVID-19 and future pandemics
On Jun. 17, 2020, Bvlgari, the Italian luxury brand, announced plans to support research into COVID-19 and vaccine…
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COVID-19 | Infectious Disease | NIH | Therapeutics | Vaccine
All of Us Research Program launched COVID-19 research initiatives
On Jun. 16, 2020, the All of Us Research Program, part of the National Institutes of Health, announced…
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Pneumonia vaccine price dropped dramatically for lower-income countries thanks to the Gavi pneumococcal Advance Market Commitment
On Jun. 16, 2020, lower-income countries across the world have access life-saving pneumococcal conjugate vaccines, which protect against…
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Biotechnology | COVID-19 | Diagnostics | Infectious Disease | Non-Profit Research | Therapeutics | Vaccine
San Diego’s scientific and medical institutes collaborated on large-scale research program to study spread of COVID-19
On Jun. 16, 2020, a consortium that includes many of San Diego’s top medical and scientific research institutes…
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Biotechnology | Diagnostics | Infectious Disease | Polio | Vaccine | WHO
Batavia Biosciences and Valneva collaborated to accelerate development of low-cost inactivated polio vaccine
On Jun. 15, 2020, Batavia Biosciences and Valneva announced a collaboration agreement to accelerate market-access of a low-cost…
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Catalent announced agreement with AstraZeneca to manufacture COVID-19 vaccine candidate
On Jun. 15, 2020, Catalent announced that it will provide vial filling and packaging capacity to AstraZeneca at…
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AstraZeneca to supply Europe with up to 400 million doses of Oxford University’s vaccine at no profit
On Jun. 13, 2020, AstraZeneca announced it had reached an agreement with Europe’s Inclusive Vaccines Alliance (IVA), spearheaded…
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Sinovac announced positive preliminary results of phase I/II clinical trials for inactivated vaccine candidate against COVID-19
On Jun. 13, 2020, Sinovac Biotech announced positive preliminary results of phase I/II clinical trial for the Company’s…
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Biotechnology | FDA | Oncology | Vaccine
FDA approved HPV vaccine Gardasil as throat cancer prevention
On Jun. 12, 2020, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced it had approved an expanded indication for…
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Sinovac and Butantan joined efforts to advance clinical development of an inactivated vaccine for COVID-19 to phase III
On Jun. 11, 2020, Sinovac Biotech announced the signing of a clinical development collaboration agreement to advance the…
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Emergent BioSolutions signed agreement to be US manufacturing partner for AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate
On Jun. 11, 2020, Emergent BioSolutions announced deployment of its molecule-to-market contract development and manufacturing (CDMO) services to…
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Moderna advanced late-stage development of vaccine (mRNA-1273) against COVID-19
On Jun. 11, 2020, Moderna announced progress on late-stage development of mRNA-1273, the Company’s mRNA vaccine candidate against…
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COVID-19 mouse model announced to speed search for drugs, vaccines
On Jun. 10, 2020, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis reported they have developed…
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Johnson & Johnson announced acceleration of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate with phase 1/2a clinical trial
On Jun. 10, 2020, Johnson & Johnson announced that through its Janssen Pharmaceutical subsidiary it has accelerated the…
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Catalent partnered with Spicona to develop COVID-19 vaccine candidate using GPEx cell line development platform
On Jun. 10, 2020, Catalent announced that it had signed an agreement with Spicona to develop a virus-like…
