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It’s been a busy day so far for biopharma news and updates. Read on for more.
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Bill and Melinda Gates call for collaboration, continued innovation to overcome challenges of delivering COVID-19 scientific breakthroughs to the world
12/10/2020
Gates Foundation pledges additional $250 million to accelerate development and equitable distribution of COVID-19 tests, treatments, and vaccines to end the pandemic
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Merck Advances Phase 3 Trial to Evaluate Investigational Islatravir as Once-Monthly Oral PrEP for Women at High Risk for Acquiring HIV-1
11/16/2020
Collaboration with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Seeks to Bring Forward a New HIV Prevention Option to Help Address the HIV Epidemic with Focus on Women in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Intellia Therapeutics Receives Grant to Develop Curative CRISPR/Cas9 In Vivo Sickle Cell Disease Treatments
11/11/2020
Intellia Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:NTLA), announced that it has received a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to research in vivo sickle cell disease (SCD) treatments using its CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing technology. This pilot development program is part of the Gates Foundation’s broade
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Just - Evotec Biologics Receives Grant to Enable an Antibody Product for The Prevention of Covid-19
10/19/2020
Evotec SE announced that its Seattle-based subsidiary, Just - Evotec Biologics, Inc., received a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as part of the COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator to enable the development and production of monoclonal antibody candidates for the prevention of severe COVID-19 in vulnerable populations in low and middle income countries.
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Lilly Announces Arrangement for Supply of Potential COVID-19 Antibody Therapy for Low- and Middle-Income Countries
10/8/2020
Eli Lilly and Company and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, as part of the COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator, have entered into an agreement to facilitate access to future Lilly therapeutic antibodies under development for the prevention and treatment of COVID-19, the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 novel coronavirus, to benefit low- and middle-income countries.
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Statement from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation CEO Mark Suzman on Momentum in Global COVID-19 Response
9/30/2020
The death toll from COVID-19 passed one million this week. It is a sobering moment. But there is cause for optimism as recent days have seen a significant surge in momentum around global cooperation, which is our greatest strength when it comes to consigning this pandemic to the history books.
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Acceligen Launches Program for Precision Crossbreeding of African Dairy Production Systems
9/24/2020
Acceligen, a Recombinetics Inc. company, today announced that it received a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop bovine genetics optimized with traits desirable to smallholder dairy farmers. The breeding program will contribute to more sustainable production by using traits that will increase farmer income
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Gates Foundation Honors Director of Africa CDC With 2020 Global Goalkeeper Award
9/22/2020
Foundation also announces three Global Goals award winners and launches two innovative partnerships to address COVID-19 impacts in Kenya
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Gates Foundation's Annual Goalkeepers Report Shows COVID-19 Has Stalled 20 Years of Progress, Calls for Global Response to End the Pandemic
9/15/2020
Report shows how economic damage has reinforced inequities and derailed achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals; spotlights countries innovating to meet challenges
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Relation Therapeutics Teams up With Mila in Coalition to Identify COVID-19 Therapeutic Candidates
9/1/2020
Relation Therapeutics, a drug development company driven by data science and machine learning, announces Project RE, which will apply Relation Therapeutics’ and its partners’ technology to the identification of repurposed drug combinations as potential therapeutic candidates for COVID-19.
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Novavax Initiates Efficacy Trial of COVID-19 Vaccine in South Africa
8/17/2020
Novavax, Inc., a late-stage biotechnology company developing next-generation vaccines for serious infectious diseases, announced the beginning of a Phase 2b clinical trial in South Africa to evaluate the efficacy of NVX-CoV2373, Novavax’ COVID-19 vaccine candidate.
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Dynavax Announces Grant to Scale up CpG 1018 Adjuvant Capacity to Support the Global COVID-19 Response
8/13/2020
Dynavax Technologies Corporation (Nasdaq: DVAX), a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing novel vaccines, today announced a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation of $3.4 million to scale up production batch size to allow for increased capacity of Dynavax’s CpG 1018 advanced adjuvant to support the global COVID-19 response. These efforts will support capacity of up to 750 million adjuvant d
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HJFMRI Receives Grant to Research COVID-19 Impact on Pregnant Women and Newborns
8/11/2020
HJF Medical Research International (HJFMRI), a wholly owned subsidiary of The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc. (HJF) , was awarded $1.3M by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care in the Kenya Child Health and Mortality Surveillanc
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Kleo Pharmaceuticals Announces $5 Million Grant to Advance Development of COVID-19 Hyperimmune Globulin Mimic (HGM) as a Therapeutic for Infected Patients
7/8/2020
The Grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Accelerates Company’s Efforts to Enter Clinical Trials by Early 2021
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Daré Bioscience Announces Receipt of $1.5 Million Under the Current Grant Supplement Award for Continued Development of User-Controlled Long Acting Reversible Contraceptive
6/15/2020
Contraceptive Program Supported by up to $20.5 Million in Grant Funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation pledges $1.6 billion to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, to protect the next generation with lifesaving vaccines
6/4/2020
Global leaders unite to safeguard 300 million more children from disease and mitigate consequences of COVID-19
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'Hygiene Hub' links science to action to help save lives during COVID-19
5/29/2020
New online portal provides 'real-time' support and latest evidence for hygiene interventions actors, supported by funding from DFID and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
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New Research Highlights Disparity of Economic, Educational, and Social Impact of COVID-19 Based on Race, Gender, and Income
5/18/2020
Data science firm Civis Analytics released new findings from its COVID-19 Impact Research, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.