India curbs Remdesivir price to make COVID-19 treatment more affordable

The Indian state, Maharashtra has become the first to fix the price of remdesivir at INR2,360 (US$32.17), which is 16% m...

October 16, 2020 | Friday | News
Roche SARS-CoV-2 antigen test to support high-volume testing of COVID-19 suspects

Roche announced on 13 Oct 2020 that it intends to launch a high-volume SARS-CoV-2 Antigen test as an aid in th...

October 14, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Scientific advisory board in Europe to address dysfunctional endothelium in COVID-19

After encouraging results obtained under named patient use in severe cases of COVID-19,  F4 Pharma is now prep...

October 14, 2020 | Wednesday | News
IQVIA joins FDA to advance COVID-19 understanding through CARE project

US-based IQVIA in scientific partnership with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), will provide agile analytics fr...

October 13, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Taiwan inks deal with BioNTech for COVID-19 vaccine delivery

Taiwan based TTY Biopharm Company, has announced that it has received authorization for the delivery of coronavirus vacc...

October 13, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Honeywell emphasises on improving occupants health in Malaysia

Honeywell has recently launched an integrated set of solutions in Malaysia to help building owners improve the...

October 13, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Lilly reports reduced recovery time in critically ill COVID-19 patients with Baricitinib

US based Eli Lilly and Company and Incyte shared additional data showing baricitinib in combination with remdesivir...

October 12, 2020 | Monday | News
Korea develops method to detect COVID-19 RNAs in 30 min

A joint Korean research team comprised of Professor Jeong Wook Lee and Ph.D. candidate Chang Ha Woo and Professor Gyoo Y...

October 12, 2020 | Monday | News
SII to produce 200 million COVID-19 vaccines doses for India and LMICs in 2021

A further collaboration among the Serum Institute of India (SII), the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer by volu...

October 9, 2020 | Friday | News
EU secures 400 million doses of Janssen’s COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate

  Johnson & Johnson on 8 Oct 2020 announced that the European Commission (EC), acting on behalf of the Europea...

October 9, 2020 | Friday | News
WHO calls for stronger collective efforts to curtail COVID-19

With the increase in COVID-19 cases in most countries of WHO South-East Asia Region, World Health Organization has calle...

October 8, 2020 | Thursday | News
CEPI establishes global centralized COVID-19 vaccine candidates assessment network

The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) in Norway has announced partnerships with five clinical sampl...

October 8, 2020 | Thursday | News
Australia invests $2.3 B on native COVID-19 vaccine

The Australian Government is investing a total of $2.3 billion to support home-grown researchers and manufacturers to de...

October 8, 2020 | Thursday | News
GENE Life to leverage anti-pandemic supplies and COVID-19 kits in China

Amuse Group Holding Limited and Grand View Bio Tech announced the establishment of their joint venture GENE Life Company...

October 7, 2020 | Wednesday | News
New Zealand’s Ubiquitome signs NIH RADx contract for COVID-19 tests

New Zealand-based Ubiquitome is ramping up production of its mobile, real-time (RT) PCR technology with fundin...

October 7, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Singapore’s younger healthcare professionals resilient despite COVID-19

Royal Philips, a global leader in health technology, has announced findings from its study of 15 countries, the Future H...

October 6, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Eisai to involve jointly in COVID-19 drug discovery utilizing Eritoran and E6011

Japan's Eisai has entered into a joint research agreement with four research organizations (KAN Research Institute, Nati...

October 7, 2020 | Wednesday | News
TaiGen filed US IND for its influenza antiviral TG-1000

TaiGen Biotechnology Company, Limited ("TaiGen") announced on 5 Oct 2020 that it has filed an Investigational New Drug (...

October 5, 2020 | Monday | News