HONG KONG – Hong Kong’s emerging med-tech sector is getting a boost from a government-funded program aimed at sharing technology with other jurisdictions, a program driven in part by the need to contain the COVID-19 pandemic and continue opening regional economies.
Regulatory snapshots, including global submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Baxter International, Diazyme, Infervision, Therapixel.
Med-tech happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: 3M, Accelmed Partners II, Alivecor, Applied DNA Sciences, Army Distaff Foundation, Boxview, Ekso Bionics, Henry Schein, Immunicom, Integragen, Lawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine, Lgc, Medpod, Myomo, Native Antigen, Neurometrix, Omron Medical, OncoDNA, Oracle, Osi Systems, Sectra, Sheba Medical Center, Spacelabs Healthcare, Stewart Industries, Tearlab, Visualdx, Yabao Pharmaceuticals.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in diagnostics, including: Diagnosing fatty liver disease; Assessing COVID-19 with lung ultrasound; Noncoding mutations contribute to heart disease.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Allergy, Anaptysbio, Assembly, Astrazeneca, Chemocentryx, Crinetics, Fate, Fujifilm, Immodulon, Leo, Merck, Mylan, Osmotica.
DUBLIN – Osivax SAS has assembled a public funding package of more than €32 million (US$36.3 million) to pursue ongoing clinical development of its universal flu vaccine and to take forward a coronavirus vaccine program based on a similar approach, involving vaccine-like particle (VLP) technology.