Med-tech happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: Asensus Surgical, Brainomix, Burstiq, Centene, Coapt, Diasorin, Enable Biosciences, Flowmetric, Freudenberg Medical, GT Molecular, Kepley Biosystems, Lexogen, Liberating Technologies, Luminex, Microsoft, Neosensory, Neurologica, Oaktree Projects, Oneprojects, Quipt Home Medical, Si-Bone, Teladoc, Vistamed, Vitalhub.

Clinical updates, including trial initiations, enrollment status and data readouts and publications: Atheart Medical, Curebase, Exagen, Inbios, Intuitap Medical, Medical Microinstruments, Pear Therapeutics, Spinex, Vessi Medical.

The lack of data surrounding the efficacy of Chinese COVID-19 vaccines against the Delta variant has had many questioning them, especially after a recent study showed that one of those vaccines, Sinovac Biotech Ltd.’s Coronavac, was less effective than Pfizer Inc. and Biontech SE’s Comirnaty in Chile.

Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Akeso, Arca, Artax, AVM, Evgen, Innovent, Moleculin, Oryzon, Targovax, Valo.

Clinical updates, including trial initiations, enrollment status and data readouts and publications: Affinivax, Akeso, Ascletis, Asieris, Cyclacel, Emalex, Ena, Equillium, Galecto, Genocea, Hepion, Inhibrx, Jupiter, Kedrion, Lava, Scynexis, Strongbridge, TFF.

Biopharma happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: Abcam, Bicycle, Hoth, Hutchmed, Ionis, M8, Palisade Bio, Pionyr, RDIF, UCB.

Med-tech happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: Airstrip, Avita Biomedical, Biointellisense, Exactech, International Isotopes, Invivo Therapeutics, Radqual, RTI Surgical, Seegene, Symphonyai.