Therapeutic Goods Administration of Australia authorized Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine in children (6-11 Years)
On Feb. 16, 2022, Moderna announced that the Therapeutic Goods Administration in Australia had granted provisional registration for…
Australia Therapeutic Goods Administration granted provisional registration for Novavax COVID-19 vaccine
On Jan. 19, 2022, Novavaxa announced that Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration had granted approval for provisional registration of…
Moderna and Australia announced collaboration to bring mRNA manufacturing to Australia
On Dec. 13, 2021, Moderna announced an agreement with the Australian Government to build a state-of-the-art messenger RNA…
Novavax filed for provisional approval of its COVID-19 vaccine in Australia
On Oct. 29, 2021, Novavax announced the completion of its rolling submission to the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA)…
Researchers developed COVID-19 severity screening method based on the Agilent Cary 630 FTIR spectrometer
On Aug. 18, 2021, Agilent Technologies announced that researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in India…
Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration granted provisional registration for Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine
On Aug. 9, 2021, Moderna announced that the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) had granted provisional registration to the…
Moderna announced new supply agreement with Australia for 25 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine
On May 12, 2021, Moderna announced a new supply agreement with the government of Australia for 25 million…
Sequenced genome of the Australian lungfish 14x larger than human genome
On Jan, 18, 2021, researchers in Konstanz, Wurzburg, Hamburg and Vienna, led by evolutionary biologist Professor Axel Meyer…
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…
Novavax and Commonwealth of Australia announced agreement for acquisition of Novavax COVID-19 vaccine
On Nov. 4, 2020, Novavax announced the signing of a non-binding Heads of Terms document with the Australian…
HHS funded development of needle-free vaccine administration technology
On Oct. 6, 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced funding of a patch that…
Genomic leaders collaborated to create Australia’s first national COVID-19 tracking system
On Sept. 14, 2020, Illumina announced that the Australian public health laboratories will aim to sequence the virus…
BioMedomics’ Sickle SCANﾮ approved by Department of Health in Australia
On Sept. 3, 2020, BioMedomics announced that the Therapeutic Goods Administration, a branch of the Department of Health…
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…
Atossa Therapeutics received approval to open clinical study of AT-301 nasal spray being developed to treat COVID-19
On Aug. 3, 2020, Atossa Therapeutics announced that it had received approval from the ethics committee to open…
Atossa Therapeutics contracted for clinical study of AT-301 nasal spray for treating COVID-19
On Jul. 16, 2020, Atossa Therapeutics announced that it has contracted with Avance Clinical to conduct a clinical…
Deadly rabbit virus spread in the US
On Jul. 13, 2020, an emerging virus threatens both wild and pet rabbits in the U.S. The fatal…
Landmark legal victory for public health and a major setback for the tobacco industry
On Jun. 10, 2020, the World Trade Organizationﾒs (WTO) Appellate Body reported on the dispute brought by Honduras…
Clinical trial in COVID-19 patients tests anti-inflammatory drug developed 25 years ago at Scripps Research
On Apr. 29, 2020, an anti-inflammatory drug developed at Scripps Research 25 years ago tested as a way…
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FDA approved first new drug under international collaboration for patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer
On Apr. 17, 2020, as part of Project Orbis, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Seagen’s…
Stanford-led team developed privacy-focused coronavirus alert app
On Apr. 9, 2020, James Petrie, a graduate student in applied mathematics at the University of Waterloo in…
Queensland University leads international team researching ancient Australian plant to help in production of COVID-19 vaccine
On Apr. 7, 2020, the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) announced that it is leading an international team…
Golden Rice Approved by U.S. FDA
On May 24, 2018, the United States Food and Drug Administration (U.S. FDA) released a statement on GR2E…
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Researchers unlock genetic code of cancer-causing liver fluke parasite
On Sept. 10, 2014, an international team of scientists from Singapore, Thailand, China and Australia announced that they…
Genome for endangered Tasmanian tiger was completed
On Jun. 28, 2011, to prevent extinction of the Tasmanian tiger, a team of scientists led by the…
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Australia approved locally made bird flu vaccine
On Jun. 15, 2008, Australia announced it had approved the first locally made vaccine to protect humans from…
FDA approved Afluria, a new inactivated influenza vaccine for use in people age 18 years and older
On Sept. 28, 2007, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved an Australian-made influenza vaccine called Afluria…
Corus Pharma was acquired by Gilead Sciences for $365 million
On Aug. 11, 2006, Gilead Sciences announced that it had completed its acquisition of Corus Pharma for $365…
Malaria Atlas Project was founded
In 2006, the Malaria Atlas Project (MAP) was founded as an international research collaboration that tracks the global…
The first official case of devil tumor facial disease was reported
In 1996, the first official case of devil tumor facial disease was reported. Devil Facial Tumour Disease (DFTD)…