Novavax and Serum Institute announced submission to WHO for Emergency Use Listing of COVID-19 vaccine
On Sept. 23, 2021, Novavax with its partner, Serum Institute of India announced a regulatory submission to the…
Pfizer and BioNTech received first U.S. FDA Emergency Use Authorization of a COVID-19 vaccine booster
On Sept. 23, 2021, Pfizer and BioNTech announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorized…
Tonix Pharmaceuticals expanded research collaboration to develop precision medicine techniques for COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics
On Sept. 23, 2021, Tonix Pharmaceuticals announced it had expanded its research collaboration with Columbia University. The research…
OraSure received $13.6 million from BARDA to support InteliSwab COVID-19 rapid test 510(k) Clearance and CLIA Waiver
On Sept. 23, 2021, OraSure Technologies and the Biomedical Advanced Research Development Authority (BARDA) announced up to $13.6…
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Winners of 2022 Breakthrough Prizes In Life Sciences announced
On Sept. 22, 2021, the Breakthrough Prize Foundation and its founding sponsors announced the 2022 winners of the…
Clover Biopharmaceuticals’s vaccine using Dynavax’s CpG 1018 adjuvant met primary and secondary efficacy endpoints
On Sept. 22, 2021, Dynavax Technologies announced that Clover Biopharmaceuticals reported positive data for their protein-based COVID-19 vaccine…
Veklury (Remdesivir) significantly reduced risk of hospitalization in high-risk patients with COVID-19
On Sept. 22, 2021, Gilead Sciences announced positive results from a Phase 3 randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial to…
Pfizer and BioNTech expanded U.S. collaboration to provide 500 million additional COVID-19 vaccine doses to poorest countries
On Sept. 22, 2021, Pfizer and BioNTech announced plans to expand their agreement with the U.S. government by…
INOVIO received regulatory authorization to conduct phase 3 efficacy trial of COVID-19 DNA vaccine candidate in Mexico
On Sept. 22, 2021, Inovio Pharmaceuticals announced that it had received authorization from COFEPRIS, the national health regulatory…
Eiger BioPharma announced interim analysis of dosing of Peginterferon Lambda in phase 3 TOGETHER study
On Sept. 20, 2021, Eiger BioPharmaceuticals announced announced that Peginterferon Lambda (Lambda) will be added to the ongoing,…
Pfizer and BioNTech announced positive topline results from pivotal trial of COVID-19 vaccine in children 5 to 11 years
On Sept. 20, 2021, Pfizer and BioNTech announced results from a Phase 2/3 trial showing a favorable safety…
University of Oxford and Oracle Cloud System helped researchers identify COVID-19 variants faster
On Sept. 20, 2021, the University of Oxford and Oracle’s Global Pathogen Analysis System announced that it was…
Great cats tested presumptive positive for COVID-19 at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo
On Sept. 17, 2021, the lions and tigers at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo were reported testing presumptive positive…
US Department of Defense awarded $647 million in contracts for over-the-counter COVID-19 test kits
On Sept. 17, 2021, the U.S. Department of Defense in coordination with the Department of Health and Human…
CDC to invest $2.1 billion to protect patients and healthcare workers from COVID-19 and future infectious diseases
On Sept. 17, 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced a $2.1 billion investment to…
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused the biggest decrease in life expectancy since World War II
On Sept. 17, 2021, Oxfordï¾’s Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science reported the COVID-19 pandemic triggered life expectancy losses…
Africa faced 470 million COVID-19 vaccine shortfall in 2021
On Sept. 16, 2021, the WHO reported that the continent faced almost 500 million doses short of the…
Moderna announces Health Canada approves its COVID-19 vaccine
On Sept. 16, 2021, Moderna announced Health Canada had approved the New Drug Submission (NDS-CV) for SPIKEVAX (elasomeran…
Novavax included in University of Oxford Com-COV3 study comparing mixed COVID-19 vaccine in adolescents
On Sept. 16, 2021, Novavax announced its participation in a newly expanded Phase 2 clinical trial called Comparing…
Celsion and Hainan Poly Pharm signed agreement to manufacture Celsionï¾’s DNA-based vaccine
On Sept. 16, 2021, Celsion and Hainan Poly Pharm announced an amendment to their existing contract manufacturing agreement…
NIH builds large nationwide study population of tens of thousands to support research on long-term effects of COVID-19
On Sept. 15, 2021, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded nearly $470 million to build a national…
Oragenics initiated COVID-19 challenge study evaluating multiple formulations of its SARS-CoV-2 vaccine candidate
On Sept. 15, 2021, Oragenics announced the initiation of a study to evaluate the immunogenicity and viral load…
Moderna reported clinical data on its COVID-19 vaccine
On Sept. 15, 2021, Moderna announced new analysis suggesting that the COVID-19 vaccine was highly effective against circulating…
US Department of Defense awarded $3.2 billion in contract modifications for monoclonal antibodies
On Sept. 15, 2021, the U.S. Department of Defense in coordination with the Department of Health and Human…
InBios received FDA EUA for COVID-19 IgG antibody rapid test
On Sept. 15, 2021, InBios announced that it had received Emergency Use Authorization from the U.S. Food and…
Misdirected antibodies linked to severe COVID-19
On Sept. 14, 2021, the NIH announced that an international project called the COVID Human Genetic Effort has…
Emergent BioSolutions announced manufacturing agreement with Providence Therapeutics for mRNA COVID-19 vaccine candidate
On Sept. 14, 2021, Emergent BioSolutions announced a five-year contract development and manufacturing (CDMO) services agreement spanning Emergentï¾’s…
City of Hope trial was first to test an investigational COVID-19 vaccine in immunocompromised bone marrow transplant
On Sept. 14, 2021, City of Hope announced that it had begun enrolling patients in a Phase 2…
Atlanta Zoo’s western lowland gorillas tested presumptive positive for COVID-19
On Sept. 10, 2021, Zoo Atlanta reported that it had received presumptive positive test results indicating that members…
US Department of Defense awarded $35.8 million contract to Mettler-Toledo Rainin to increase domestic production capacity of pipette tips
On Sept. 10, 2021, the U.S. Department of Defense in coordination with the Department of Health and Human…