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Excerpt from the Press Release: MARLBOROUGH, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Hologic, Inc. (Nasdaq: HOLX), an innovative medical technology company primarily focused on improving women’s health, today announced a multi-year commitment to decreasing breast cancer screening disparities for Black women. The program is in partnership with the Black Women’s Health Imperative (BWHI), the only nonprofit organization created by Black…
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Excerpt from the Article: UC San Diego Health will be a test site for a third, major Phase III clinical trial to assess a vaccine candidate for SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19. Sponsored by Janssen Pharmaceuticals Companies of Johnson & Johnson, the trial will recruit up to 60,000 participants at sites in the…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: BURLINGAME, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Humanigen, Inc., (Nasdaq: HGEN) (“Humanigen”), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on preventing and treating an immune hyper-response called ‘cytokine storm,’ today announced that a patient case report on the use of lenzilumab™ in critical COVID-19 was published online at OSF Preprints. The case report, titled “COVID-19 associated…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: WAKEFIELD, MA – October 2, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Innovation Pharmaceuticals (OTCQB:IPIX) (“the Company”), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company, today announced that earlier this week the Company submitted a pre-IND meeting request to the FDA in advance of a planned study of Brilacidin, a defensin-mimetic drug candidate, for the treatment of…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: WOBURN, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Javelin Biotech (“Javelin”) today announces a three-year collaboration with Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) to design and build what could potentially be an industry-leading platform to evaluate ADME (absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion) properties of small molecules. The ADME platform will integrate a microphysiological system (MPS), commonly referred to…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–COVISTAT Inc. and its parent company Ensysce, received IND allowance and today initiated a Phase 1 clinical trial of oral nafamostat in healthy volunteers. Nafamostat, an ultra-potent protease inhibitor and an ingredient from Ensysce’s opioid overdose protection platform, is being developed as an oral treatment for COVID-19. The…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: NEWTON, Mass. and MILAN, Sept. 24, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — InnovHeart s.r.l., a developer of novel Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement (TMVR) systems for the treatment of Mitral Regurgitation (MR), announced today the successful First-in-Human implantation of its proprietary Saturn Transcatheter Mitral Valve along with excellent results at the 30-day follow-up for the…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: Charlottetown, PE – From COVID-19 vaccines and diagnostics, to understanding climate change, producing animal health products, and feeding the world sustainably, life sciences continues to be an area of high-demand in solving the challenges facing our society. Dedicated to celebrating science, innovation and solutions, this year’s Global Biotech Week (GBW)…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Diomics, a San Diego-based biotech company, today announced that it has been awarded a $2,125,000 Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium (MTEC) Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) with the U.S. Department of Defense to accelerate development and testing of its Diocheck™ SARS-CoV-2 Visual Immune Response Indicator, a transdermal skin patch that…
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Excerpt from the Article: The company said at its R&D day that the Phase III COVE trial of mRNA-1273 had enrolled 25,296 of its planned 30,000 participants, while slightly more than 10,000 had received the first and second doses of the vaccine. One of the most closely watched Phase III Covid-19 vaccine trials is already…
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