COVID-19

Excerpt from the Article: On a Friday afternoon in mid-March 2020, as the emergency department at Massachusetts General Hospital began admitting its first coronavirus patients, attending emergency physician and researcher Michael Filbin recognized an urgent need to quickly learn about the emerging pathogen. With a surge of COVID-19 patients expected in the hospital in the…

Excerpt from the Article: Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: REGN) received today a recommendation from the independent data monitoring committee (IDMC) for the REGN-COV2 antibody cocktail treatment trials for COVID-19 that the current hospitalized patient trial be modified. Specifically, based on a potential safety signal and an unfavorable risk/benefit profile at this time, the IDMC recommends further…

Excerpt from the Press Release: SAN CARLOS, Calif., Oct. 20, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — IncellDx will collaborate on the SARS-CoV2 Clinical Trial NCT04435522 involving Pfizer’s FDA-approved CCR5 antagonist Maraviroc.  The trial “Open-Label Study of Maraviroc in Hospitalized Individuals Diagnosed With SARS-CoV-2″seeks to establish whether a one week treatment with Maraviroc, used at its approved dosage for…

Excerpt from the Press Release: BOSTON, Oct. 22, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Atea Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing and commercializing antiviral therapeutics to improve the lives of patients suffering from life-threatening viral infections, today announces that the company has entered into an agreement with Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX:…

Excerpt from the Article: When Moderna began research on a vaccine for the virus now known as SARS-CoV-2 in late January, confirmed cases of infection were largely contained within China and the public health catastrophe that’s since unfolded was a threat, not reality.  The prospect of designing, testing, and proving a vaccine within a year…

Excerpt from the Press Release: SAN DIEGO, Oct. 14, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Sorrento Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: SRNE, “Sorrento”) today announced receipt of clearance from the Brazilian regulatory agency (ANVISA) to proceed with a Phase 2 clinical trial of Abivertinib in mild, moderate and severe COVID-19 patients. The Brazil study is a Phase 2, Randomized,…

Excerpt from the Press Release: PRINCETON, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Lactiga Inc., a biotechnology company advancing its patented anti-infective biologic, LCTG-001, announced today a collaboration agreement with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to advance preclinical research into LCTG-001 as a potential treatment for COVID-19 patients. The collaborative team, led by Dr. Rebecca Powell, Assistant Professor…

Excerpt from the Press Release: Burlingame, CA – October 13, 2020 – Humanigen, Inc., (Nasdaq: HGEN) (“Humanigen”), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on preventing and treating an immune hyper-response called ‘cytokine storm’ with its lead drug candidate lenzilumab™, today announced that the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the U.S.…

Excerpt from the Press Release: CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Moderna, Inc., (Nasdaq: MRNA) a biotechnology company pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines to create a new generation of transformative medicines for patients, today announced the initiation of a rolling submission to Health Canada for mRNA-1273, the Company’s vaccine candidate against COVID-19. This initiation follows positive results…

Excerpt from the Press Release: SAN DIEGO, Oct. 07, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Sorrento Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: SRNE, “Sorrento”) announced today that it has discovered a small molecule termed Salicyn-30 that demonstrated a potent 3-4 log reduction of SARS-CoV-2 virus infection in an in vitro virus infection experiment. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Sorrento has…