Heat Biologics collaborated with University of Miami to develop COVID-19 Coronavirus vaccine
On Mar. 18, 2020, Immunology researchers at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine announced a collaboration…
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Pfizer and BioNTech co-develop potential Coronavirus (COVID-19)
On Mar. 17, 2020, Pfizer and BioNTech SE announced the companies have agreed to a letter of intent…
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CanSinoBIO’s investigational vaccine against COVID-19 approved for phase 1 clinical trial in China
On Mar. 17, 2020, CanSino Biologics announced that its recombinant novel Coronavirus Vaccine (Adenovirus Type 5 Vector) candidate…
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Innovation Pharmaceuticals Brilacidin tested as drug and vaccine at different institutions
On Mar. 17, 2020, Innovation Pharma announced details on the Material Transfer Agreement signed with a leading public…
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NIH clinical trial of investigational vaccine for COVID-19 began in Seattle
On Mar. 16, 2020, the National Institutes of Health (NIH announced that a Phase 1 clinical trial evaluating…
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Moderna announced first participant dosed in NIH-led phase 1 study of mRNA vaccine against novel Coronavirus
On Mar. 16, 2020, Moderna announced that the first participant had been dosed in the Phase 1 study…
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Fosun Pharma and BioNTech formed COVID-19 vaccine strategic alliance in China
On Mar. 15, 2020, Fosun Pharma and BioNTech announced a strategic development and commercialization collaboration to advance BioNTech’s…
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Johnson & Johnson collaborated with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center to accelerate COVID-19 vaccine development
On Mar. 13, 2020, Johnson & Johnson announced that its Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies have entered a collaboration with…
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Predictive Oncology launched new AI platform for vaccine and drug development targeting coronaviruses and Acute Respiratory Syndromes
On Mar. 12, 2020, Predictive Oncology announced it will launch a new AI platform for vaccine and drug…
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Vir Biotec announced research collaboration with NIH Vaccine Research Center on antibodies against coronaviruses
On Mar. 11, 2020, Vir Biotech announced a research collaboration agreement with the NIH to advance characterization and…
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CaroGen and Yale scientists joined to develop a COVID-19 vaccine
On Mar. 10, 2020, CaroGen and scientists from Yale announced they had begun work on a vaccine targeting…
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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Wellcome, and Mastercard launched COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator
On Mar. 10, 2020, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Wellcome, and Mastercard committed up to $125 million…
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Moderna completed enrollment of Cytomegalovirus vaccine (mRNA-1647) phase 2 study
On Mar. 3, 2020, Moderna announced that enrollment was complete for all three dose cohorts of the Phase…
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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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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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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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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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Tonix Pharma announced collaboration with Southern Research to develop vaccine to protect against COVID-19 based on Horsepox virus
On Feb. 26, 2020, Tonix Pharmaceuticals announced a strategic collaboration with Southern Research to support the development of…
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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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FDA approved Fluad Quadrivalent (influenza vaccine, adjuvanted; Seqirus) for adults 65 years and older
On Feb. 24, 2020, Seqirus announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had approved the first…
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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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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…
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Fred Hutch trial halted after promising HIV vaccine failed to show efficacy
On Feb. 4, 2020, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center announced that a promising HIV vaccine trial was…
