Med-tech happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: 4basecare, Applied Biosystems, Applied DNA Sciences, Blue Note Therapeutics, Caredx, Crown Bioscience, Emulate, Labcorp, Myriad Genetics, Pacific Biosciences, Transchart.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Aquestive, Bayer, Glaxosmithkline, Medicure, Merus, Moderna, Neoleukin.
Regulatory snapshots, including global submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Cardiowise, Locate Bio, Siemens Healthineers.
LONDON – The U.K. is to make treatment with interleukin-6 (IL-6) inhibitors standard of care for critically ill COVID-19 patients after a randomized trial found the arthritis drugs significantly improve survival.
CAJICA, Colombia – Brazil's Butantan Institute and the government of the state of Sao Paulo released efficacy results on Jan. 7 for Coronavac, developed by China’s Sinovac Biotech Ltd., that suggest the COVID-19 vaccine is more than 78% effective.
DUBLIN – Curevac AG has entered a global alliance with Bayer AG to accelerate its efforts to bring a third, desperately needed mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine to market. The vaccine in question, CVnCoV, began a pivotal phase IIb/III trial on Dec. 14.
Clinical updates, including trial initiations, enrollment status and data readouts and publications: Abbvie, Aldeyra, Alnylam, AM-Pharma, Basilea, Pfizer, Pharmaessentia.