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
Malaysia unveils world's first fully quantitative COVID-19 test

The Malaysia Automotive, Robotics and IoT Institute (MARii) and Sengenics Sdn. Bhd. have launched the ImmuSAFE COVID+ bi...

October 1, 2020 | Thursday | News
Singapore discovers blood markers to predict COVID-19 severity or risk

Researchers from A*STAR’s Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN), together with international collaborators have disc...

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
Australia invents app for analysing coronavirus genome

A new mobile app has made it possible to analyse the genome of the SARS-CoV-2 virus on a smartphone in less than half an...

September 30, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Sharp Corp develops air purifying device to fight COVID-19

A device, developed by Japan headquartered Sharp Corporation, equipped with Plasmacluster technology, which exposed an a...

September 30, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Singapore's EDDC to discover new AI-driven COVID-19 therapies

Auransa, Inc., an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven pharmaceutical company, on 29 Sep 2020 announced a resea...

September 30, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Japan gathers genetic information for predicting COVID-19 severity

Japanese researchers have launched the Joint Research Coronavirus Task Force to gather genetic information for predictin...

September 30, 2020 | Wednesday | News
COVAXX initiates Ph 1 trial of COVID-19 vaccine in Taiwan

COVAXX, a subsidiary of United Biomedical Inc (UBI) headquartered in the US, has announced the first healthy a...

September 29, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Australia announces first strategic action plan for blood cancers

As part of the 2020/21 Budget, the Australian government will provide more than $600,000 to the Leukaemia Foundation as ...

September 28, 2020 | Monday | News
Solvay introduces long-lasting antimicrobial cleaning technology

Belgium-based Solvay has recently introduced Actizone™, a line of ready-to-use products and ingredients that provi...

September 25, 2020 | Friday | News
OMRON develops ventilators with VENINDO to assist in COVID-19 recovery

Due to the continuously evolving COVID-19 situation in Indonesia, hospitals and medical centres are facing increased bed...

September 25, 2020 | Friday | 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
Australia now eligible to purchase COVID-19 vaccine doses through COVAX

The Australian Government has joined the COVAX facility, enabling the purchase of COVID-19 vaccine doses as they become ...

September 23, 2020 | Wednesday | News