BioSpace News Archive

As researchers around the globe and across the country accelerate their efforts to study the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine in treating COVID-19, Apotex, Canada’s largest pharmaceutical company and the only manufacturer of hydroxychloroquine in the country, announced a donation today of two million dosages of the medication to the federal government.

Myovant Sciences announced it will hold a webcast and conference call beginning at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time / 5:30 a.m. Pacific Time on Wednesday, April 22, 2020, to discuss results from the Phase 3 SPIRIT 2 study of once-daily relugolix combination therapy in women with pain associated with endometriosis.

Advances Discovered in Collaboration with University Hospital Basel’s Liechti Laboratory and Aims To Enhance Therapeutic Potential of Psychedelics

Medifast, Inc. (NYSE: MED), a leading manufacturer and distributor of clinically proven programs and healthy living products, will announce financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2020 on Tuesday, May 5, 2020, after market close

T2 Biosystems, Inc., a leader in the rapid detection of sepsis-causing pathogens, announced that it will report financial results for the first quarter of 2020 after market close on Tuesday, May 5, 2020.

In a letter to the U.S. Department of HHS, the AANA has partnered with 24 national organizations to request Secretary Alex Azar support key provisions of the U.S. president’s executive order #13890, which provides a path to the permanent removal of burdensome supervision and licensure requirements for non-physician providers such as Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists.

Gilead Sciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: GILD), Kite, a Gilead Company, and oNKo-innate announced the companies have entered into a three-year cancer immunotherapy research collaboration to support discovery and development of next-generation drug and engineered cell therapies focused on natural killer (NK) cells.

Entopsis, LLC announced today that it has entered into a diagnostics commercialization agreement with Genetics Institute of America of Delray Beach, Florida. Genetics Institute of America will create a laboratory developed test (LDT) based on Entopsis’ core diagnostic platform, OpsisDxTM .

Global health service company Cigna Corporation (NYSE:CI) announced today that Eric Palmer, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, will present at the 2020 BofA Securities Health Care Conference on May 12, 2020 through a virtual webcast.

AptarGroup, Inc. (NYSE: ATR), a global leader in consumer dispensing, active packaging and drug delivery solutions and services, and Sonmol, a leading Chinese digital respiratory therapeutics company, have announced a collaboration for developing a digital therapies and services platform targeting respiratory and other diseases.