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Gates Foundation, Wellcome Trust set up drug development accelerator targeting COVID-19

March 10, 2020

LONDON – The Gates Foundation and Wellcome Trust have joined forces with financial services specialist Mastercard in establishing a $125 million seed fund to accelerate development of drugs to treat COVID -19.

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The articles in this collection are from BioWorld’s ongoing coverage of the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak. Note that we have added three critical tables which are...

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LONDON – A single dose of Pfizer Inc./Biontech SE’s COVID-19 vaccine does not promote a strong enough immune response to provide protection against variants of...

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The FDA’s Arthritis Advisory Committee panelists groped through cloudy data while complaining about the design of the phase III trial for Chemocentryx Inc.’s...