Roche announced FDA Emergency Use Authorization and availablabilityof cobas SARS-CoV-2 detection test
On Mar. 13, 2020, Roche announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an Emergency Use Authorization…
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Biotechnology | COVID-19 | Diagnostics | FDA
FDA issued Emergency Use Authorization to Thermo Fisher Scientific for diagnostic test for COVID-19
On Mar. 13, 2020, Thermo Fisher Scientific announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an emergency…
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Biotechnology | CDC | COVID-19 | Diagnostics | FDA | Infectious Disease | NIH | Non-Profit Research | Therapeutics | Vaccine | WHO
National Emergency declared in U.S. for novel Coronavirus disease outbreak
On Mar. 13, 2020, declared a COVID-related emergency under Section 501(b) of the Stafford Act [18]. Under the…
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Vir Biotec announced intent to collaborate with Biogen on manufacturing of antibodies to potentially treat COVID-19
On Mar. 12, 2020, Vir Biotech announced it had signed a letter of intent with Biogen for the…
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Innovation Pharma announced testing procedures of Brilacidin against Coronavirus
On Mar. 12, 2020, Innovation Pharma announced research procedures that one of the 12 Regional Biocontainment Labs (RBLs)…
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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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Mayo Clinic developed test to detect COVID-19 infection
On Mar. 12, 2020, the Mayo Clinic announced it had developed a test that can detect the SARS-CoV-2…
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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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La Jolla Institute for Immunology identified potential targets for immune responses to novel coronavirus
On Mar. 11, 2020, the La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) and the J. Craig Venter Institute announced…
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First of 3 diagnostic tests for SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus available from bioMerieux
On Mar. 11, 2020, bioMerieux announced the forthcoming launch of 3 different tests to address the COVID-19 epidemic…
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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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U.S. Regional Biocontainment Lab to begin testing of Brilacidin against Coronavirus (COVID-19)
On Mar. 10, 2020, Innovation Pharma announced that management was advised that testing of Brilacidin, the Company’s flagship…
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CerTest Biotec and BD announced COVID-19 diagnostic test
On Mar. 10, 2020, BCerTest Biotec, along with BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) announced that the VIASURE SARS-CoV-2…
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Biotechnology | COVID-19 | Diagnostics | Infectious Disease | NIH | Non-Profit Research | Therapeutics | U.S. Congress
Innovation Pharma Brilacidin received by US Regional Biocontainment Lab for testing against COVID-19
On Mar. 9, 2020, Innovation Pharmaceuticals announced it was notified by one of the 12 Regional Biocontainment Labs…
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Ampligen to be tested by Japan’s National Institute of Infectious Diseases as potential treatment for SARS-CoV-2
On Mar. 9, 2020, AIM ImmunoTech announced that the National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIID) in Japan will…
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Mount Sinai and Harbour BioMed collaborated to advance treatment of cancer and Coronavirus COVID-19
On Mar. 6, 2020, Mount Sinai Health System and Harbour BioMed (HBM) announced a multi-year, multifaceted collaboration to…
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German lab demonstrated feasibility to detect SARS-Coronavirus-2 using Hologic’s Panther Fusion System
On Mar. 5, 2020, Hologic announced a molecular assay for detecting the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (previously 2019-nCoV) on…
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University of Washington Medicine deployed new test for coronavirus
On Mar. 4, 2020, the UW Medicine Clinical Virology Lab announced it had received U.S. Food and Drug…
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Vir Biotec and Alnylam expanded collaboration to advance RNAi therapeutics for Treatment of Coronavirus Infection
On Mar. 4, 2020, Vir Biotech and Alnylam Pharmaceuticals announced an expansion of their existing collaboration to include…
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Luminex provided updates on critical efforts related to novel Coronavirus
On Mar. 4, 2020, Luminex announced they were working on multiple solutions to augment their NxTAG and ARIES…
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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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University of Washington Medicine received FDA permission to conduct coronavirus tests
On Feb. 29, 2020, the University of Washington (UW) Medicine Clinical Virology Lab announced it had received U.S….
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Mutations can reveal how the coronavirus moves, but they’re easy to overinterpret
On Feb. 28, 2020, immediately after Christian Drosten published a genetic sequence of the novel coronavirus online, he…
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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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New images of novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 made available
On Feb. 26, 2020, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases’ Rocky Mountain Laboratories (NIAID-RML) announced it…
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Pilot clinical trial in China to test University of British Columbia researcher’s findings as a targeted therapy for COVID-19
On Feb. 25, 2020, a University of British Columbia (UBC) researcher was part of an international team working…
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Vir Biotec and WuXi Biologics announced collaboration for global development of antibodies to treat COVID-19
On Feb. 25, 2020, Vir Biotech and WuXi Biologics announced a development and manufacturing collaboration to advance and…
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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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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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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…
