Regulatory snapshots, including global submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Bgi, Endologix, Thermo Fisher Scientific.
Med-tech happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: Adventhealth, Asuragen, Axonics, Ben-Gurion University, BGI, Closedloop.ai, Co-Diagnostics, Curetis, Earlysense, Health Tech Innovation Systems, Medtronic, Nuprobe, Paragonix, Precheck Health Services, Premier Global, Qiagen, Sotera Wireless.
LONDON – The European Commission offered up to €80 million (US$89.4 million) of funding to Curevac AG, to scale up development and production of a vaccine against the coronavirus in Europe, following reports that the U.S. administration had made an offer for the German biotech, in order to get exclusive control of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate.
Undetected cases were a major driver of the early spread of SARS-CoV-2 in Wuhan, China, despite being less infectious on a case-by-case basis, according to a modeling study published in the March 16, 2020, online issue of Science.
Regulatory snapshots, including global submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Reflexion, Roche, Transenterix.
Med-tech happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: Bausch Health, Bioreference Laboratories, Cherrycircle Software, Co-Diagnostics, Evisit, Luminex, Medable, MIP Diagnostics, National Kidney Foundation, Opko, Precheck Health Services, Qiagen, Science37, Veravas, Vitalhub.
Mallinckrodt plc is engaging with the U.S. FDA, NIH and the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority to address the potential use of its INOmax (nitric oxide) inhaled gas to treat COVID-19-associated lung complications. INOmax is marketed in the U.S. by the Staines-upon-Thames, U.K.-based company to treat full- and near-term neonates with hypoxic respiratory failure associated with pulmonary hypertension.
The number of biopharmas and nonprofits pitching in to find a treatment for COVID-19 continues to grow. In the past few weeks, that number has more than doubled and it shows no signing of slowing.
Another volatile day of trading in health care stocks unfolded March 13, after a trebling of broader market carnage the day before and the declaration of a national emergency by U.S. President Donald Trump Friday afternoon. Substantial declines hit shares of Moderna Inc., Vaxart Inc. and Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc., all of which had recently rallied on optimism over coronavirus-fighting efforts. Biopharma shares saw some recovery, with both the S&P 500 Health Care Sector and Nasdaq biotechnology indices each rising a bit more than 2% each before Friday's close.
