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In a statement to the New York Times, Bright said he has pushed for science, not politics, as the key to battling the pandemic.
After leading a flurry of collaborations with multiple companies to hasten the development of vaccine candidates and treatments for COVID-19, Rick Bright, the director of BARDA, has abruptly departed his post for another position in the government.
Relmada Therapeutics is working to develop a treatment, REL-1017, for those with depression that do not respond to drugs currently on the market.
At least some of the concern is that without greater funding and coordination, the companies won’t be able to buy sufficient raw materials, continue production of existing drugs and quickly scale up their capacity to meet the demand of new drugs and older therapies around the world.
The Rockefeller Foundation laid out its COVID-19 Testing Action Plan as a fundamental step to reopen the country.
Traditional vaccine development and regulatory policies are changing in response to the current pandemic. Some of those approaches may become more common, expanding into other, non-pandemic-related areas in the future.
GlobalData released a report that showed the global healthcare sector has been subjected to an array of cyberattacks as it deals with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sanjeev Luther, president and chief executive officer of Rafael Pharmaceuticals, told BioSpace that the company made the decision to continue to enroll the trial, which was 75% filled, due to the short timeline patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer have.
Pharma and life sciences companies boost their executive ranks and boards with this week’s Movers & Shakers.
The company suggests its approach can actually help eliminate the virus from an already-infected host, while also bolstering the immune response.
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