Top news of the week: 18.03.2021.
Healthcare
Software for the Cell & Gene Therapy Wave: Vineti’s Amy DuRoss on The Long Run
Today’s guest on The Long Run is Amy DuRoss. Amy is the co-founder and CEO of San Francisco-based Vineti. The company provides software to manage the delicate logistical dance for cell and ...
Alberta-based biotech company collaborates with Australian research institute to take fight to COVID-19
A medical research institute in Australia has published a new article providing evidence that the drug Apabetalone has potential benefits for COVID-19 patients and a Calgary biotech company ...
Personal Reflection: Empathy In The Workplace
Just before I chaired a Board meeting last year, I spent a frustratingly painful hour going through many of the uncomfortable details of my divorce process and a set of emotional custody ...
Researchers race to develop antiviral weapons to fight the pandemic coronavirus
An arsenal of potential treatments takes aim at proteins key to the virus’ life cycle
The EMA covid-19 data leak, and what it tells us about mRNA instability
Leaked documents show that some early commercial batches of Pfizer-BioNTech’s covid-19 vaccine had lower than expected levels of intact mRNA, prompting wider questions about how to assess ...
Sinovac to conduct COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial on older Pinoys
Chinese pharmaceutical firm Sinovac Biotech will conduct a clinical trial for its COVID-19 vaccine on Filipinos 60-years-old and older.
Vir Shares Head Higher as Phase 3 COVID-19 Trial with GSK Achieves 85% Reduction in Hospitalization and Death
Vir Biotechnology shares traded 30% higher after the company together with its development partner GlaxoSmithKline reported that in the Phase 3 COMET-ICE trial VIR-7831 was shown to reduce ...
Key facts to know about China's vaccine race
World's most populous nation faces mounting pressure to accelerate inoculations