Regulatory snapshots, including global submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Canon Medical Systems, Covaxx, Lumiradx, Retia Medical, Zimmer Biomet.
Med-tech happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: Aiforia, Atc Alert, Berkshire Biomedical, Biotheranostics, Brain Scientific, Bruker, Cairnsurgical, Canadian Hospital Specialties, Carenity, Cerba Research, Echosens, Electrocore, Erba Mannheim, Fortress Medical Systems, Helix, Imbiotechnologies, Inivata, Natera, Numares, Orasure, Pathan, Polarityte, Premier Medical Laboratory Services, Qiagen, Thomas Scientific, Viveve, Xclinical.
With worrisome COVID-19 variants cropping up, developers including the likes of Gritstone Oncology Inc. and Vir Biotechnology Inc. continue their efforts to invent new vaccines that may get around the drawbacks of existing shots if they turn up.
Regulatory snapshots, including global submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Lightpoint Medical, Omniguide Holdings, Renegade.bio.
LONDON – There’s mixed news about emerging variants of SARS-CoV-2, with Pfizer Inc. and Biontech SE reporting their vaccine Comirnaty maintains its protective effect against B 1.1.7, first detected in the U.K., while researchers in South Africa say virus variant 501Y.V2 is able to escape neutralization by both monoclonal antibodies and convalescent plasma from previously infected individuals.
LONDON – A new national consortium of virologists has been set up to systematically assess how mutations in SARS-CoV-2 affect key outcomes such as effectiveness of vaccines and therapies, transmissibility of the virus and the severity of COVID-19 infections.
CAJICA, Colombia – Brazil’s health care surveillance agency, Anvisa, granted the first two emergency approvals for COVID-19 vaccines on Sunday, Jan. 17, giving the green light to Sinovac Biotech Ltd.’s Coronavac and to Covishield, developed by Astrazeneca plc and the University of Oxford.
Regulatory snapshots, including global submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Motus GI, Sml Genetree.
