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…
Innovation Pharma’s Brilacidin tested as drug and vaccine at different institutions
On Feb. 18, 2020, Innovation Pharma announced the Company was exploring its lead defensin mimetic drug candidate, Brilacidin,…
Remdesivir prevented MERS coronavirus disease in monkeys
On Feb. 13, 2020, National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists announced that the experimental antiviral remdesivir successfully prevented…
Vir Biotec identified two antibodies that bind to spike protein of SARS-CoV-2
On Feb. 12, 2020, Vir Biotech announced it had identified two monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) that bind to SARS-CoV-2…
$675 million needed for new coronavirus preparedness and response global plan
On Feb. 5, 2020, to fight further spread of the new coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak in China and globally,…
CEPI and GSK announced collaboration to strengthen the global effort to develop a vaccine for the 2019-nCoV virus
On Feb. 3, 2020, CEPI, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, and GSK announced a new collaboration aimed…
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Vaxart announced initiation of Coronavirus vaccine program
On Jan. 31, 2020, Vaxart announced it had initiated a program to develop a coronavirus vaccine candidate based…
WHO declared coronavirus outbreak a global health emergency
On Jan. 30, 2020, The WHO announced that the outbreak of a deadly and fast-spreading strain of coronavirus…
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The CDC confirmed person-to-person spread of new coronavirus in the U.S.
On Jan. 30, 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed that the 2019 Novel Coronavirus…
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WHO, China leaders discuss next steps in battle against coronavirus outbreak
On Jan. 28, 2020, the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, met President…
NIH officials discussed novel coronavirus that recently emerged in China
On Jan. 23, 2020, the new cluster of viral pneumonia cases originating in Wuhan, China, marked the third…
Moderna announced funding award from CEPI to accelerate development of mRNA vaccine against novel Coronavirus
On Jan. 23, 2020, Moderna announced a new collaboration to develop an mRNA vaccine against the novel coronavirus…
Vir Biotec applying multiple platforms to address public health risk from coronavirus
On Jan. 22, 2020, Vir Biotech announced it was working to rapidly determine whether its previously identified anti-coronavirus…
Johns Hopkins engineering professor Dr Lauren Gardner created the COVID dashboard used around the world to track the novel coronavirus outbreak
On Jan. 22, 2020, Johns Hopkins engineering professor Dr. Lauren Gardner created the COVID dashboard used around the…
Secretary Azar declared Public Health Emergency for the U.S. for 2019 Novel Coronavirus
On Jan 31, 2020, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex M. Azar II declared a public health emergency…
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Novel coronavirus identified as cause of a cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan, China
On Jan. 9, 2020, the World Health Organization announced that a novel coronavirus had been identified as the…
Cases of pneumonia detected in Wuhan, China were first reported to the WHO
On Dec. 31, 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the Coronavirus outbreak a global pandemic. To date,…
Sinovac announced approval of varicella vaccine for prevention of varicella/zoster virus (chickenpox) in children
On Dec. 27, 2019, Sinovac Biotech announced that the China National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) had approved and…
Medigen Vaccine Biologics completed enrollment of phase III MRCT For EV71 vaccine
On Dec. 25, 2019, Medigen Vaccine Biologics (MVB) announced it had completed the enrollment of phase III multi-region…
New MERS Coronavirus vaccine clinical trial started in Saudi Arabia
On Dec. 20, 2019, Vaccitech’s partner, the University of Oxford’s Jenner Institute, in collaboration with The King Abdullah…
Pediatric brain tumor treatment at the University of Alabama awarded FDA grant for first-in-human study
On Dec. 17, 2019, the University of Alabama at Birmingham Comprehensive Cancer Center (UAB) announced that Gregory Friedman,…
Ceres Nanosciences launched Nanotrap Virus Capture Kit
On Nov. 7, 2019, Ceres Nanosciences announced the commercial launch of the Nanotrap Virus Capture Kit. The Nanotrap…
Study highlighted Zika lessons, need to stay vigilant
On Oct. 18, 2019, in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers published a comprehensive review of this…
FDA approved the JYNNEOS Vaccine for the prevention of smallpox and monkeypox
On Sept. 24, 2019, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced approval of Jynneos Smallpox and Monkeypox Vaccine,…
CDC published updated ACIP recommendations for human papillomavirus vaccination of adults
On Aug. 16, 2019, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published updated Immunization Practices Advisory Committee…
Vanderbilt Vaccine Center Director James Crow Jr, MD, was awarded half of the Future Insight Prize by Merck KGaA of Germany
On Jul. 9, 2019, Vanderbilt Vaccine Center announced that Director James Crow Jr., MD, had been awarded half…
Chembio Diagnostics received CE Mark for point-of-care multiplex test for Zika, Dengue and Chikungunya
On Jun. 27, 2019, Chembio Diagnostics announced that is had obtained a CE mark for its DPP Zika/Dengue/Chikungunya…
the largest stock of the rinderpest virus was destroyed at the Pirbright Institute.
On Jun. 14, 2019, the Pirbright Institute announced that it had destroyed the last samples of rinderpest virus…
FDA authorized marketing of first diagnostic test for detecting Zika virus antibodies
On May 23, 2019, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it had authorized InBios’ marketing…
UGA researchers discovered a vaccine for Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) virus
On Apr. 25, 2019, researchers at the University of Georgia announced they had successfully discovered a single-dose vaccine…