Patriot Express Travel at BWI, SEATAC required on-site, rapid COVID-19 testing
On Nov. 1, 2020, the U.S. Department of Defense announced the start of rapid, on-site COVID-19 testing for…
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389,000 BinaxNOW COVID-19 tests distributed to historically black colleges and universities
On Oct. 31, 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that 389,040 state-of-the-art Abbott…
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InBios awarded $12.7M to boost production of two COVID-19 diagnostics
On Oct. 31, 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of Defense…
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Hologic awarded US Government contract to expand COVID-19 test production capacity
On Oct. 30, 2020, Hologic announced that it had been awarded a $119 million contract from the U.S….
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Innovation Pharma and George Mason University released lab testing results for Brilacidinﾒs COVID-19 treatment
On Oct. 30, 2020, Innovation Pharma and George Mason University jointly announced completion of extensive laboratory testing supporting…
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REGN-COV2 IDMC recommended holding enrollment in hospitalized patients with high oxygen requirements
On Oct. 30, 2020, Regeneron announced that ot had received a recommendation from the independent data monitoring committee…
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Icosavax launched COVID-19 vaccine program with preclinical data and $165 million in new funding
On Oct. 30, 2020, Icosavax announced the launch of the companyﾒs COVID-19 vaccine program with preclinical data on…
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HHS and DOD announced $12.7 million contract with InBios to boost US production of rapid COVID-19 tests
On Oct. 30, 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the U.S. Department of…
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Kaiser Permanente Research Institute enrolled volunteers in a phase 3 clinical trial to evaluate COVID-19 vaccine
On Oct. 30, 2020, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute (KPWHRI) announced enrollment of volunteers in a phase…
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Trials of University of Oxford’s Coronavirus vaccine began in Kenya
On Oct. 30, 2020, the University of Oxford announced that Kenya had joined the global efforts in search…
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Oxford University began COVID-19 test for individuals without symptoms
On Oct. 29, 2020, the University of Oxford announced a new pilot scheme to assess the use of…
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Mammoth Biosciences announced agreements targeting high-throughput CRISPR-based SARS CoV-2 test
On Oct. 29, 2020, Mammoth Biosciences announced that it had signed agreements with MilliporeSigma and Hamilton Company targeting…
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PerkinElmer COVID-19 test kit receives FDA Emergency Use Authorization for sample pooling
On Oct. 29, 2020, PerkinElmer announced that the FDA had issued Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) to allow sample…
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Moderna partnered with Takeda and Government of Japan to supply 50 million doses of mRNA vaccine against COVID-19
On Oct. 29, 2020, Takeda Pharmaceutical announced that it would import and distribute 50 million doses of Moderna’s…
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Emulate collaborated with FDA to apply lung-chip to evaluate safety of COVID-19 vaccines
On Oct. 29, 2020, Emulate announced that it had entered into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA)…
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UC Berkeley launched pop-up lab to monitor Bay Area sewage for COVID-19
On Oct. 29, 2020, the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) announced that it had launched a new…
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Novartis announced collaboration with Molecular Partners to develop DARPinﾮ therapies against COVID-19
On Oct. 28, 2020, Novartis and Molecular Partners announced an option and license agreement to develop, manufacture and…
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CVS Health expanded COVID-19 testing services with 1,000 rapid-result test sites
On Oct. 28, 2020, CVS Health announced plans to expand COVID-19 testing services currently offered at select CVS…
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NIH scientists discovered key pathway in lysosomes that coronaviruses use to exit cells
On Oct. 28, 2020, researchers at the NIH announced that they had discovered a biological pathway that the…
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Data for Lilly’s bamlanivimab (LY-CoV555) in COVID-19 outpatients published in NEJM
On Oct. 28, 2020, Eli Lilly announced the New England Journal of Medicine had published data from the…
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Biotechnology | COVID-19 | FDA | Therapeutics
Lilly announced agreement with US government to supply 300,000 vials of investigational neutralizing antibody bamlanivimab to fight COVID-19
On Oct. 28, 2020, Eli Lilly announced an initial agreement with the U.S. government to supply 300,000 vials…
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Regeneron’s COVID-19 outpatient trial demonstrated that REGN-COV2 antibody significantly reduced virus levels
On Oct. 28, 2020, Regeneron announced positive, prospective results from an ongoing Phase 2/3 seamless trial in the…
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Novavax provided phase 3 COVID-19 vaccine clinical development update
On Oct. 27, 2020, Novavax announced updates on its Phase 3 clinical development program of NVX-CoV2373, its COVID-19…
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CHF Solutions announced deployment of Aquadex Systems to hospitals in the s to treat COVID-19 patients
On Oct. 27, 2020, CHF Solutions announced that it had shipped Aquadexﾙ product to medical facilities in Tennessee…
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Aurinia announced European trial to evaluate antiviral activity of Voclosporin in kidney transplant recipients with COVID-19
On Oct. 27, 2020, Aurinia Pharmaceuticals announced the funding and initiation of an open-label exploratory trial evaluating the…
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Nektar Therapeutics announced phase 1b clinical study to evaluate empegaldesleukin for treatment of patients with COVID-19
On Oct. 27, 2020, Nektar Therapeutics announced that it has received FDA clearance for an Investigational New Drug…
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UK MHRA began rolling review of Moderna’s mRNA COVID-19 vaccine
On Oct. 27, 2020, Moderna announced that the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) in the United…
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DOD and HHS awarded $33 million contract to Tecan to establish domestic production of disposable pipette tips
On Oct. 26, 2020, the Department of Defense (DOD), in coordination with the Department of Health and Human…
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Antibodies co-invented by Scripps Research and IAVI developed as a potential COVID-19 therapy
On Oct. 26, 2020, immunologists at Scripps Research, in partnership with colleagues at the IAVI Neutralizing Antibody Center,…
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ViralClear halted its phase 2 hospitalized COVID-19 trial
On Oct. 26, 2020, BioSig Technologies and its majority owned subsidiary, ViralClear Pharmaceuticals, announced the halting of its…
