Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Algernon, Arch, Arcturus, Ascletis, Astrazeneca, Athersys, Beigene, Can-Fite, Fennec, Hope, Merck, Predictive Biotech, Proteostasis, Ridgeback.
Biopharma happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: 89bio, Alimera, Cannabics, Celltrion, CNS, Coherus, Connectyx, Enlivex, Fulcrum, Gilead, La Jolla, Medgenome, Ocular, Orgenesis, Pluristem, Redhill, Tamir, Thermogenesis, Vaxil, WPD.
Clinical updates, including trial initiations, enrollment status and data readouts and publications: 89bio, Aslan, Bausch Health, Kolon, Lilly, Nextcure, Prolynx.
Physicians who perform a variety of device implant procedures face a difficult choice in determining whether a patient should be treated. A new article in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC) recommends that patients who ordinarily would be candidates for surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) might instead be referred for the transcatheter alternative.
HONG KONG – Whether bats are the source of COVID-19 is a debatable point; however, using sound to navigate like them could prove key for diagnostics and disease monitoring. Bat-Call Ltd. is using its auscultation technology in the battle against the pandemic. It said its patented artificial intelligence (AI) infra-sound analysis and deep learning classification technologies can support the early detection and monitoring of COVID-19 patients.
Med-tech happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: 10x Genomics, 3M, Biocept, Biocorrx, Care Access Research, Ceros, CIUSSS NIM, CHUM, ÉTS, Foxo Bioscience, Illumina, Lumeris, Masimo, Savantx, Van Andel Institute.
A new, worldwide coalition of plasma companies seeking to develop and deliver a hyperimmune immunoglobulin therapy for fighting COVID-19 takes the view that many hands make light work.
DUBLIN – At the best of times, drug development is, of course, a complex problem. It is all the more demanding still in the middle of a pandemic, when the threat to human life is increasing exponentially, and health care systems are buckling under an extraordinary burden. Optimizing the development of drugs and vaccines in order to quickly generate high-quality evidence of their safety and efficacy is, therefore, a critical task, but an online webinar organized by the drug development consultants Certara LP, in conjunction with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, suggested that, at this stage of the crisis, that lesson has yet to be absorbed.
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