Spurred by reports of biopharma executives exercising stock options in conjunction with announcements about COVID-19 vaccine developments and government contracts, U.S. lawmakers want to close the loopholes that make such actions legal.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Allovir, Celltrion, Chemocentryx, Chi-Med, Roche, Sorrento, Zynerba.
Clinical updates, including trial initiations, enrollment status and data readouts and publications: Apnimed, Epygenix, Intensity, Mimedx, Novartis, Octapharma, Principia, Rhovac, Rigel, Virometix.
A Sept. 16 Senate hearing revisited the Trump administration’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the CDC took the opportunity to post a vaccine distribution plan. CDC director Robert Redfield advised the committee, however, that sufficient quantities of vaccine to cover everyone in the U.S. might not be available until the third quarter of 2021, adding that now is the time to stand up a distribution network for a vaccine that will require cold-chain storage.
LONDON – After years of progressing at snail’s pace, COVID-19 has forced through a rapid adoption of digital tools across the spectrum of health in the U.K., from general practitioner appointments, to hospital referrals, elderly care homes and community nursing. “At game changing speed” the health and care system, “has gone from one extreme to another,” said Harpreet Sood, a general practitioner in inner city London and board member of Digitalhealth London.
TORONTO – “With COVID-19 it’s not been an easy time to raise capital.” In virtually the same breath Joshua Liu, CEO of Toronto-based health-tech startup SeamlessMD Inc. credited the pandemic with nudging investors to spend CA$4 million (US$3 million) to grow his company’s cloud-based patient engagement app, boosting a library of digital plans for surgery, cancer and chronic care and adding machine learning-based risk prediction to remote patient monitoring.
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