The March 4 congressional hearing on the budget for the NIH was peppered with questions about the COVID-19 outbreak, although the general sentiment is that the agency will receive yet another boost in appropriations in fiscal 2021.
Against the backdrop of the global spread of COVID-19, India announced restrictions Tuesday on the export of 26 active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and formulations of those ingredients.
Med-tech happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: Alibaba, Bactiguard, Co-Diagnostics, Convatec, Diasorin, Implandata, Insulet, Lucid Diagnostics, Neogenomics, Pavmed, The Technology Partnership Vigilenz, Vivalnk.
New York and Rehovot, Israel-based in vitro diagnostics startup Todos Medical Ltd. is developing blood tests for the early detection of cancer and neurodegenerative diseases using Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy. Now the company is looking to apply the technology in diagnosing infections, including the novel coronavirus, COVID-19.
COVID-19 is bringing more pressure to bear on Congress to pass S. 2723, the Mitigating Emergency Drug Shortages (MEDS) Act, which has been sitting in the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee since Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) introduced it in October 2019 – a few months before the novel coronavirus emerged.
LONDON – The EU launched a “Corona” response team, bringing together oversight of all the separate strands put in place to control the virus, as the infection spread to 18 of 27 member states, with 2,100 confirmed cases and 31 deaths.
The U.S. FDA has posted an immediately-in-effect policy document regarding clinical laboratory development of diagnostics for the pathogen responsible for COVID-19 disease. The agency said the policy allows a lab to use any diagnostic before the FDA has completed an exhaustive review of the test.
Med-tech happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: Alphatec Holdings, BGI, Cetius Tech, Clearsense, Complete Genomics, Cytosorbents, Eos Imaging, Illumina, Labvantage Solutions, Leica Microsystems, Master Dynamic, MGI, Nevro, New World Development, Perkinelmer, Stimwave Technologies, Surgicalone, Transenterix, Verato.
Med-tech happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: Anpac Bio-Medical Science, Emit, Medidata, Pillo Health, Pulmodyne, Ra Medical Systems, Nordion, Pelican Engineering, Redhawk, Roche, Sedana, Westinghouse.
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