Clinical updates, including trial initiations, enrollment status and data readouts and publications: Abbott, Dayzz, Elixir Medical, InspireMD, Medtronic, Sintx Technologies.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: EMD Serono, Genprex, Medivir, Merck, Sinovac, Tizona, Viracta.
LONDON – Illumina Inc. has named the first three U.K. genomics startups to be backed by its accelerator program, after expanding the scheme from the San Francisco Bay Area to its European headquarters in Cambridge, U.K.
Med-tech happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: Avacta Group, Biocept, Caremindr, Cortechs, Cytiva, Docbot, Erba Mannheim, Fluidigm, Global Wholehealth Partners, Incontext.ai, Integrated Genetics, Life Image, PCORI, RapidAI, Senzime, Smiths Medical, Subtle Medical, Sugarmate, Tandem Diabetes Care, Windtree Therapeutics.
Redhill Biopharma Ltd.’s chief operating officer, Gilead Raday, told BioWorld that the firm will build on positive results in severe COVID-19 patients with oral opaganib, a first-in-class sphingosine kinase-2 inhibitor.
Just the name, Strategic National Stockpile (SNS), evokes the image of a huge warehouse, or a series of warehouses spread across the U.S., strategically stocked with all the medical supplies, diagnostics and drugs that will be needed nationwide to respond to any health emergency brought on by terrorists, nuclear attacks, pandemics or other public health hazards. The reality is so much more – and so much less.
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