NIH to boost national COVID-19 testing capacity
On Sept. 2, 2020, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced $129.3 million in scale-up and manufacturing support…
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Broad Institute provided COVID-19 screening for students, faculty and staff at more than 100 colleges and universities
On Sept. 2, 2020, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard announced it had partnered with 108 public and…
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Novavax announced publication of phase 1 data for COVID-19 vaccine candidate in The New England Journal of Medicine
On Sept. 2, 2020, Novavax announced the publication in The New England Journal of Medicine of Phase 1…
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OPKO Health’s BioReference Laboratories announced New York City Schools COVID-19 testing program
On Sept. 2, 2020, BioReference Laboratories, an OPKO Health company, began testing New York City principals, teachers and…
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PathGroup selected by NIH to become RADx program ‘mega-lab’ for COVID-19 testing
On Sept. 2, 2020, PathGroup announced the award of a funding grant from the National Institutes of Health…
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NIH-supported study to track prevalence and impact of SARS-CoV-2 among pregnant women in low- and middle-income countries
On Sept. 1, 2020, the National Institutes of Health announced that it had launched a study to track…
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Lenzilumab COVID-19 case-control study published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings Journal
On Sept. 1, 2020, Humanigen announced the first case-control data of lenzilumab in severe COVID-19 demonstrated an 80%…
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Sanofi updated Kevzara (sarilumab) phase 3 trial in severe and critically ill COVID-19 patients outside the US
On Sept. 1, 2020, Sanofi announced that the global Phase 3 trial investigating intravenously administered Kevzara (sarilumab) at…
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UConn launched funding program for COVID-19 research
On Aug. 31, 2020, the Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) announced it had launched a…
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Novavax and Canada reached agreement to acquire Novavax COVID-19 vaccine
On Aug. 31, 2020, Novavax announced it had reached an agreement in principle with the Government of Canada…
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Disease | NIH | Therapeutics
NIAID awarded BioCryst $44 million contract to advance development of galidesivir
On Aug. 31, 2020, BioCryst Pharmaceuticals announced that the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) had…
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Gilead’s Investigational Antiviral Veklury® (Remdesivir) Receives U.S. Food and Drug Administration EUA for Treatment of Patients With Moderate COVID-1
On Aug. 28, 2020, Gilead Sciences announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) expanded the Emergency Use…
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iBio and Planet Biotechnology entered into exclusive worldwide license agreement for development of a COVID-19 therapeutic
On Aug. 28, 2020, iBio announced that it had entered into an exclusive worldwide license agreement with Planet…
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BioNTech and Fosun Pharma to potentially supply 10 Million doses of BNT162 mRNA-based vaccine candidate against SARS-CoV-2
On Aug. 27, 2020, Pfizer and Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical announced an intended collaboration to supply 10 million doses…
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Assembly Biosciences and Arbutus announced collaboration to evaluate combination of core inhibitor ABI-H0731 with RNAi Therapeutic AB-729 in patients with Chronic Hepatitis B Virus Infection
On Aug. 27, 2020, Assembly Biosciences and Arbutus Biopharma announced that the companies have entered into a clinical…
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RedHill Biopharma Announced Positive Recommendation from Independent Committee to Continue U.S. Phase 2 COVID-19 Study, and Approval of COVID-19 Phase 2/3 Study in Italy
On Aug. 27, 2020, RedHill Biopharma announced that its U.S. Phase 2 study with opaganib (Yeliva®, ABC294640) in…
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Vaccitech received government grant for COVID-19 vaccine research
On Aug. 27, 2020, Vaccitech announced that it had received a non-dilutive Government grant to support research with…
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White House announced plan to deploy 150 million rapid tests in 2020
On Aug. 27, 2020, the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services and the Department of and Defense…
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Biotechnology | COVID-19 | FDA | Infectious Disease | Therapeutics | WHO
Laurent Pharmaceuticals received FDA approval to initiate its COVID-19 phase 2 clinical trial in the U.S.
On Aug. 27, 2020, Laurent Pharmaceuticals announced that it had received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug…
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VBI Vaccines announced preclinical Coronavirus program data and selection of clinical candidates with potential one-dose vaccines
On Aug. 26, 2020, VBI Vaccines announced data from three preclinical mouse studies conducted to enable selection of…
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Abbott’s fast, $5, 15-minute, easy-to-use COVID-19 antigen test for healthcare professionals received FDA Emergency Use Authorization
On Aug. 26, 2020, Abbott announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued Emergency Use…
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UConn received federal funding to develop self-administered microneedle COVID-19 vaccine technology
On Aug. 26, 2020, UConn announced that Thanh Duc Nguyen, Assistant Professor in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering…
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Sinovac signed agreement with Bio Farma Indonesia for COVID-19 vaccine cooperation
On Aug. 25, 2020, Sinovac Biotech announced it had signed two agreements in Hainan, China with PT Bio…
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Telesis Bio Demonstrates Momentum Toward Mission of Building World’s First Vaccine Printer and Global Vaccine Network
On Aug. 25, 2020, Telesis Bio, creators of the world’s first fully automated system for high-throughput writing of…
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How SARS-CoV-2 spread across greater Boston during pandemic’s first wave
On Aug. 25, 2020, data from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Massachusetts General Hospital, the Massachusetts…
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CytoDyn reached enrollment of 195 patients in its phase 3 trial for COVID-19 patients with severe-to-critical symptoms
On Aug. 25, 2020, CytoDyn announced the Company had reached the requisite number of enrolled patients in its…
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Altimmune and University of Alabama announced potent respiratory mucosal T cell responses in peclinical study of intranasal COVID-19 vaccine candidate
On Aug. 25, 2020, Altimmune announced additional positive results from the preclinical studies of its single-dose intranasal COVID-19…
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Man in Hong Kong was the first confirmed case of Coronavirus reinfection
On Aug. 24, 2020, Hong Kong University researchers reported that a 33-year-old man in Hong Kong had been…
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Genomic analysis revealed many animal species may be vulnerable to SARS-CoV-2 infection
On Aug. 24, 2020, humans are not the only species facing a potential threat from SARS-CoV-2, the novel…
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Catalent signed agreement with AstraZeneca to expand manufacturing support for COVID-19 vaccine AZD1222
On Aug. 24, 2020, Catalent announced that it had contracted to provide drug substance manufacturing to AstraZeneca for…
