VBI Vaccines announced initial positive phase 1 data for its eVLP vaccine candidate against COVID-19
On Jun. 29, 2021, VBI Vaccines announced positive Phase 1 data from its Phase 1/2 trial of the…
NIH began sudy of COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy and postpartum
On Jun. 23, 2021, the National Institutes of Health announced that an observational study had begun to evaluate…
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RECOVERY trial found Regeneron’s monoclonal antibody combination reduced deaths for hospitalised COVID-19 patients
On Jun. 16, 2021, the University of Oxford announced the Randomised Evaluation of COVID-19 Therapy (RECOVERY) trial demonstrated…
KPWHRI announced volunteers needed for COVID-19 vaccine-booster trial
On Jun. 16, 2021, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute (KPWHRI) announced that was recruiting volunteers in the…
Cocrystal’s COVID-19 antiviral CDI-45205 shown to be active against SARS-CoV-2 and prominent SARS-CoV-2 variants
On Jun. 14, 2021, Cocrystal Pharma announced the selection of CDI-45205 as the lead compound for further development…
U.S. blood donations declared safe under current COVID-19 screening guidelines
On Jun. 1, 2021, a study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health and their colleagues found…
Oregon required all captive mink vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2
On May 28, 2021, the Oregon Department of Agriculture (ODA) lifted the quarantine on the Oregon mink farm…
Patient enrollment reached 90 percent in Innovation Pharmaceuticals phase 2 clinical trial of Brilacidin for COVID-19
On May 27, 2021, Innovation Pharmaceuticals announced that patient enrollment in the Companyﾒs 120-patient, Phase 2 clinical trial…
Seattle Children’s researchers discovered that functional COVID-19 antibodies are lost quickly after mild cases
On May 27, 2021, Seattle Children’s researchers published a study that uncovered a deeper understanding of why people…
Altimmune demonstrated strong neutralization of South African variant in preclinical study of intranasal AdCOVIDﾙ
On May 26, 2021, Altimmune announced new results from a preclinical study demonstrating the ability of its AdCOVID…
WHO and Switzerland launched global BioHub for pathogen storage, sharing and analysis
On May 24, 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Swiss Confederation signed a Memorandum of Understanding…
Labcorp study suggested COVID-19 antibodies remain at least 10 months after infection
On May 24, 2021, LabCorp reported that nearly 87% of naturally infected COVID-19 patients maintained antibodies to SARS-CoV-2…
G20 leaders boosted support of the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator
On May 21, 2021, world leaders the Global Health Summit adopted an agenda to overcome the COVID-19 pandemic,…
GSK and Vir Biotechnology announced start of the EMA rolling review of VIR-7831 (sotrovimab) for early treatment of COVID-19
On May 7, 2021, GlaxoSmithKline and Vir Biotechnology announced that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has started a…
Hoth Therapeutics and Virginia Commonwealth University expanded research agreement for COVID-19 therapeutic
On May 5, 2021, Hoth Therapeutics announced it has expanded its sponsored research agreement with Virginia Commonwealth University…
The 12th Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo declared over
On May 3, 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the end of the 12th outbreak of Ebola…
Data from Vaxart oral COVID-19 vaccine phase I study suggested broad cross-reactivity against Coronaviruses
On May 3, 2021, Vaxart announced that new data obtained from its Phase I COVID-19 trial added to…
VBI Vaccines announced publication of Challenge Study Data of its eVLP vaccine candidate against COVID-19
On Apr. 28, 2021, VBI Vaccines announced that preclinical data of VBIﾒs enveloped virus-like particle (eVLP) vaccine candidate,…
Innovation Pharma surpassed 50 percent enrollment in phase 2 clinical trial of Brilacidin for COVID-19
On Apr. 28, 2021, Innovation Pharma announced that enrollment had surpassed 50 percent of the total targeted number…
CureVac Swiss initiated rolling submission process for mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine candidate with Swissmedic
On Apr. 19, 2021, CureVac and Celonic Group announced their partnership for the production of CureVacﾒs mRNA-based COVID-19…
Experimental antiviral for COVID-19 was effective in hamster study
On Apr. 15, 2021, the National Institutes of Health announced that the experimental antiviral drug MK-4482 significantly decreased…
NIAID trial of Anti-CD14 antibody to treat COVID-19 respiratory disease began
On Apr. 13, 2021, a clinical trial testing the safety and efficacy of an investigational monoclonal antibody for…
CDC awarded $3 billion to expand COVID-19 vaccine programs
On Apr. 7, 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced it had awarded $3 billion…
Anixa Biosciences and OntoChem entered next stage of development for Covid-19 therapeutic
On Apr. 5, 2021, Anixa Biosciences announced that based on Proof of Concept animal study results, it was…
Novavax initiated COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial crossover
On Apr. 5, 2021, Novavax announced the initiation of crossover arms in two ongoing clinical trials of NVX-CoV2373,…
Arbutus Biopharma, X-Chem and Proteros biostructures entered into pan-coronavirus discovery research and license agreement
On Apr. 1, 2021, Arbutus Biopharma, X-Chem and Proteros Biostructures announced hat they had entered into a discovery…
COVID-19 variant vaccine trial began at KPWHRI
On Apr. 1, 2021, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute (KPWHRI) announced that an investigational vaccine designed to…
Celonic and CureVac announced agreement to manufacture over 100 million doses of CureVacﾒs COVID-19 vaccine CVnCoV
On Mar. 30, 2021, CureVac and Celonic Group announced their partnership for the production of CureVacﾒs mRNA-based COVID-19…
Measles vaccine used as base for experimental COVID vaccine
On Apr. 1, 2021, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute (KPWHRI) announced that an investigational vaccine designed to…
Qx Therapeutics received FDA authorization with IND for QXT-101 in phase 2 trial for patients with COVID-19 infection.
On Mar. 30, 2021, Qx Therapeutics announced that the FDA had cleared the companyﾒs Investigational New Drug application…