A day after the FDA granted emergency authorization for the use of the Pfizer Inc./Biontech SE COVID-19 vaccine, the U.S. CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) gave a thumb’s up for the vaccine, as did the Western States Scientific Safety Review Workgroup.
LONDON – The U.K. Medicines and Healthcare products Agency (MHRA) has given approval for the first-in-human study of Codagenix Inc.’s COVI-VAC, a live, attenuated whole virus COVID-19 vaccine, which is engineered to be structurally identical to wild-type SARS-CoV-2, but is much slower to replicate.
The latest global regulatory news, changes and updates affecting medical devices and technologies, including: USTR seeking input on nations with poor IP protections; NICE sticks with ABI to evaluate PAD; Health Canada to extend COVID-19 flexibilities.
Med-tech happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: Activepure Technologies, Aditx Therapeutics, American Bio Medica, Ashvattha Therapeutics, Babylon Health, Builtspace, Diabeloop, Efemoral Medical, Eurofins Technologies, GE Healthcare, Hummingbird Bioscience, Insightec, Lifescan, Luminultra, Mymedbot, Novacyt, Novocure, Oncimmune, Pacific Biosciences, Roche, SonALAsense, Tempus Labs, Todos Medical, Variscite, Welldoc.
The latest global regulatory news, changes and updates affecting biopharma, including: Health Canada to extend COVID-19 flexibilities; USTR seeking input on nations with poor IP protections.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Abbvie, Acceleron, Amag, Ascletis, Antengene, Astrazeneca, Avelas, Biontech, Codagenix, Daiichi Sankyo, EMD, Gamida, Gannex, Graphite, Legend, Merck KGaA, Mindmed, Open Orphan, Pfizer, Sobi.
TORONTO – Waterloo, Ontario-based DarwinAI Corp. and Raleigh, N.C.-based Red Hat Inc.are developing a suite of deep neural networks for COVID-19 detection and risk stratification via chest radiography in cooperation with Boston Children’s Hospital. DarwinAI designed COVID-Net as “explainable” artificial intelligence (AI) that illuminates the inner workings of AI-driven medical technologies and promptly offered it on an open-source platform for the broader hospital community.
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