Versantis receives FDA RPDD for treatment of urea cycle disorders

Versantis AG, a clinical-stage company developing novel therapies for orphan liver diseases based in Switzerland, has re...

October 19, 2020 | Monday | 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
GCC states Aster DM Healthcare honored for its CSR and COVID-19 efforts

Aster DM Healthcare, the largest private healthcare service providers operating in multiple GCC states has bee...

October 14, 2020 | Wednesday | 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
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
Development of CRISPR/Cas9 method for genome editing receives Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences will award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 to Emmanuelle Charpentier...

October 9, 2020 | Friday | News
HelpMeSee launches revolutionary technology to address global cataract crisis

HelpMeSee, the not-for-profit global campaign to end cataract blindness, on 9 Oct 2020 announced a landmark achieve...

October 9, 2020 | Friday | News
Frost & Sullivan estimates $1.4B investment in 2020 for mental health management

Isolation and loneliness due to the COVID-19 pandemic have caused stress, anxiety, and depression, generating a signific...

October 9, 2020 | Friday | 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
Transgene, NEC, BostonGene collaborate for ovarian and head & neck cancers trials

Transgene, a biotech company that designs and develops virus-based immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer, a leader...

October 7, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Research on thirst wins 2020 Eppendorf & Science prize

The American scientist Christopher Zimmerman, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute in Prin...

October 7, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Mercy Ships announces world's largest NGO hospital ship

US-based Mercy Ships that uses hospital ships to deliver free, world-class healthcare services, capacity building, and s...

October 6, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Hepatitis C virus discovery gets Nobel Prize 2020 in Medicine

The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has decided to award the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medic...

October 5, 2020 | Monday | News
Healthcare consulting firm Nordic expands its reach to Europe and Asia

Nordic, a top-rated healthcare consulting firm, on 2 Oct 2020 announced its acquisition of Tasman Global, a healthc...

October 5, 2020 | Monday | News
APAC Health and Finance Ministers commit to building stronger health systems

Building on the learnings from the ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic, in mid-September, Ministers of Health and Fin...

October 2, 2020 | Friday | News
GVN's virus experts to identify promising advanced strategies to battle COVID-19

The Global Virus Network (GVN), a coalition of the world's leading medical and basic virology research centers working t...

October 1, 2020 | Thursday | News
J&J initiates global Ph 3 trial of COVID-19 vaccine candidate

Johnson & Johnson has announced the launch of its large-scale, pivotal, multi-country Phase 3 trial (ENSEMBLE) for i...

September 24, 2020 | Thursday | News