LONDON - EMA Director General Guido Rasi has hit out at the lack of coordination in COVID-19 clinical trials, questioning if the huge number of small studies that are running will support regulatory decision-making.
Representing the highest amount ever raised by a public biopharma company on a U.S. exchange, Moderna Inc. priced a $1.34 billion follow-on offering to help fund worldwide manufacturing and distribution of its mRNA-1273 vaccine for COVID-19.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Kempharm, Novartis, Organicell, Theralase, Tolero.
Clinical updates, including trial initiations, enrollment status and data readouts and publications: Agios, Amplyx, Arbutus, Biogen, Covis, Hepion, Lidds, Mezzion, MGB Biopharma.
The FDA has granted an emergency use authorization (EUA) for the home sample collection kit made by Austin, Texas-based Everlywell Inc., which can be run on two lab-developed tests. However, the agency has also shut down a Gates Foundation-backed effort in Seattle to develop another home sample collection kit even though the organization behind the effort has been authorized by state health authorities. The FDA announced the news about the Everlywell EUA with the stipulation that the user of the kit has completed an online questionnaire that is subsequently reviewed by a health care professional.
BOGOTA – Mexican home appliances manufacturer Mabe Sa De Cv, from Mexico City, became a new member of the med-tech sector after taking the leap forward and joining the scores of companies around the world shifting their traditional manufacturing lines to develop med-tech products to fight COVID-19.
Regulatory snapshots, including global submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: 1drop, Agilent, Edwards, Everlywell, Fulgent Genetics, Zebra Medical Vision.
Med-tech happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: Apollo Hospitals Group, Beckman Coulter, Behold.ai, Dascena, Illumina, Natera, Philips Healthcare US, Pulmonx, Qiagen, Renalytix AI, SyntheticMR, Thermo Fisher Scientific.