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The study was run by Johns Hopkins University and Geisinger Health, testing more than 10,000 women with no previous history of cancer.
Expectations that a vaccine against COVID-19 will be available within a year’s time are mixed, based on recent surveys conducted by BioSpace, as well as the analytics company GlobalData.
Writing in The Motley Fool, Billy Duberstein, the portfolio manager at Stone Oak Capital, pointed at these two treatment options as potential weapons against the pandemic.
Saniona, a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on rare diseases, announced that it has appointed Rudolf Baumgartner, M.D., as Chief Medical Officer and Head of Clinical Development starting on May 1, 2020.
Here is a cross-section of some of the surveys about the COVID-19 pandemic over the last few weeks.
Please check out the biopharma industry coronavirus (COVID-19) stories that are trending for April 27, 2020.
Nuritas, a biotech company that focuses on leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to discover therapeutic peptides, is joining the fight by tasking their powerful AI platform to find peptides that can be used as therapeutics for COVID-19.
Following news of Mammoth Biosciences’ CRISPR diagnostic assay to detect SARS-CoV-2, the company talked at length with BioSpace about this new test and its ramifications.
Mesoblast announced that in a study of COVID-19 patients with moderate to severe acute respiratory distress syndrome, there was 83% survival with two intravenous infusions of the company’s experimental allogeneic mesenchymal stem cell candidate Ryoncil.
Jeff Galvin, CEO of American Gene Technologies (AGT), had 30 years of business and entrepreneurial experience in Silicon Valley during the formative years of the personal computing and internet era.
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