Avacta and Cytiva collaborating on COVID-19 rapid test

Partnership to develop and manufacture a rapid test for the COVID-19 coronavirus infection for population screening

Cambridge and Wetherby, UK, 08 April 2020: Avacta Group plc (AIM: AVCT), the developer of Affimer® biotherapeutics and reagents, is pleased to announce that it has entered into a collaboration with Cytiva, formerly known as GE Healthcare Life Sciences. The companies will develop and manufacture an Affimer-based point-of-care rapid test intended for screening of large populations to diagnose the COVID-19 coronavirus infection. More>>

ERT Enables Clinical Trial Continuity through At-Home Respiratory Solutions

High-quality clinician-administered data collected during patient home visits advances respiratory trials throughout COVID-19 pandemic

April 1, 2020 – ERT, a global data and technology company that captures critical endpoint data while minimizing uncertainty and risk in clinical trials, today announced multiple options that enable trained healthcare professionals to advance respiratory clinical trials by collecting high-quality spirometry data during patient home visits. ERT’s At-Home Respiratory Solutions enable clinical trial sponsors to continue developing new respiratory treatments while patient access to investigative sites is limited due to COVID19 stay-at-home mandates. More>>

Labguru integrates free video conferencing & documenting tool to support remote lab collaboration during COVID-19

2 April 2020, Cambridge MA – Electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) pioneer, BioData, today announces its support for the global science community with the introduction of a new video conferencing service in its leading Labguru ELN platform, free of charge for all customers. More>>

Sense Accelerates Instrument-Free Molecular Diagnostic Test for COVID-19

Pioneering new class of diagnostic product will transform fight against pandemic Scale-up with Phillips-Medisize underway to ensure timely delivery and distribution

April 1, 2020 – Sense Biodetection Limited (Sense) has today announced an accelerated programme to launch the world’s first instrument-free, point-of-care molecular diagnostic test for SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. More>>

Business Continuity Plan - Message from Protagen Protein Services (PPS)

Following the recent COVID-19 outbreak, we at Protagen Protein Services (PPS) are preparing for all eventualities. Please be assured that PPS will continue to operate as normal providing you with all of the professional support and service you have to come to expect from us. Given the gravity of the situation, and to protect our staff, clients, and communities from the spread of the virus, we have taken various measures within a scope of a Business Continuity Plan: More>>

Qatar Airways Resumes Scheduled Belly-hold Cargo Operations to China in Response to Increased Demand

Qatar Airways becomes the first Middle Eastern carrier to resume belly-hold operations to all of its destinations in China by leveraging the flexibility and reliability of its modern fleet of 250 aircraft. Belly-hold cargo service to Beijing resumed on 30 March, services to Shanghai, Hangzhou and Chengdu will resume on 31 March and Guangzhou and Chongqing will resume on 01 April. More>>

ERT’s At-Home Cardiac Safety Assessment Ensures Clinical Trial Continuity

Company’s expertise, infrastructure and flexibility enable remote ECG assessment for fast-tracked COVID-19 vaccines /therapies and other critical pharmaceuticals

PHILADELPHIA – March 30, 2020 – ERT, a global data and technology company that captures critical endpoint data while minimizing uncertainty and risk in clinical trials, today announced a cardiac safety solution that helps biopharmaceutical researchers continue important clinical trials during current global ‘stay home’ mandates. The solution enables clinician-administered ECG readings ─ using ERT’s provisioned, FDA-cleared devices or other investigative site–owned equipment ─ to evaluate the safety of new vaccines and medical treatments from patients’ homes. More>>

Cobra Biologics and the Karolinska Institutet collaborate to develop COVID-19 vaccine

OPENCORONA consortium awarded €3 million funding by Horizon 2020 to support emergency research and development against the COVID-19 outbreak

Keele, UK and Matfors, Sweden, 30 March 2020: Cobra Biologics (Cobra), an international CDMO for biologics and pharmaceuticals, and the Karolinska Institutet (KI), one of the world’s leading medical universities, today announced they have been awarded €3 million emergency funding by Horizon 2020 for research and development, and phase I clinical trial testing of a DNA vaccine against COVID-19, as part of the OPENCORONA consortium to support global efforts tackling the pandemic. Partners in the consortium also include Karolinska University Hospital, Public Health Authority (FoHM), IGEA, Adlego AB and Giessen University. More>>

Sartorius Supports the Development of the First Vaccine Candidate Against the Novel Coronavirus to Enter Clinical Trials

SHANGHAI, China, March 25, 2020 / B3C newswire / -- Sartorius, a leading international partner of life science research and the biopharmaceutical industry, has supported CanSino Biologics Inc. (“CanSinoBIO”) and Maj. Gen. Chen Wei’s team at the Institute of Bioengineering at the Academy of Military Medical Sciences (“Institute of Bioengineering”) in China in their development of the first vaccine candidate against the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 to enter clinical trials. CanSinoBIO and the Institute of Bioengineering used Sartorius’ BIOSTAT® STR single-use bioreactor system for the upstream preparation of the recombinant vaccine, thus ensuring the rapid linear amplification of the adenovirus vector (Ad5-nCoV) and ultimately saving time during development. More>>

Our responsibility: employee health and taking care of patients needs

Düsseldorf, March 24, 2020. We as Gerresheimer face up to the special situation in view of the corona virus which is spreading worldwide. We are aware of our role as a key supplier of medicines and supplies for everyday life. More>>