Biodefense Headlines – 12 March 2023
News highlights on health security threats and countermeasures curated by Global Biodefense This week's selections include pathogen spillover interventions; considerations ...
Biopreparedness Research Virtual Environment (BRaVE) Initiative Backed by $105M DOE Funding
Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $105 million for research in biopreparedness. This funding, provided by the Office of Science, ...
Influenza Proteins Tilt and Wave in ‘Breath-like’ Motions
The flu virus sickens people by sneaking past their immune defenses, entering cells and then replicating. Hundreds of hemagglutinin (HA) ...
Biodefense Headlines – 24 January 2023
News highlights on health security threats and countermeasures curated by Global Biodefense This week's selections include expanding rules for oversight ...
Biodefense Headlines – 17 January 2023
News highlights on health security threats and countermeasures curated by Global Biodefense This week's selections include DARPA's program to develop ...
Political Interference: White House Launches Framework to Protect Scientific Integrity
The goal of the Framework for Federal Scientific Integrity Policy and Practice is to assist agencies across the Federal Government ...
DARPA Selects Teams to Develop Vaccine Durability Prediction Model
Technologies that can change the way we measure and perceive vaccination-induced immune protection will eliminate the uncertainty and retrospective evaluation ...
Sabin Vaccine Institute to Advance Ebola Sudan and Marburg Vaccines with New BARDA Funding
Sabin Vaccine Institute receives $35 million from BARDA with potential of up to $214 million for Medical Countermeasure Development against ...
How Are Bivalent COVID Vaccines Stacking Up Against Omicron?
Bivalent COVID vaccines have now been in use for a few months – here’s how they’re stacking up against omicron Vaccines ...
NISTCHO: New Living Reference Material for Producing Monoclonal Antibodies
NIST and collaborators have developed a new line of mAb-producing living cells that can help manufacturers better understand how their ...
Officials Declare End to Ebola Outbreak in Uganda
After 142 confirmed cases of Ebola disease and 55 deaths, officials have declared an end to Uganda's Ebola outbreak. The ...
Protection from Biothreats: DOD to Modernize Medical Countermeasures Development
The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated the need to alter how the DoD conducts research, development and acquisition of medical countermeasure and ...
Biodefense Headlines – 10 January 2023
News highlights on health security threats and countermeasures curated by Global Biodefense This week's selections include pandemic preparedness in the ...
DoD Awards ENA Respiratory $4.38M for Broad-Spectrum Antiviral Development
Goal is to add new medical countermeasure (MCM) against known and emerging viral respiratory threats ENA Respiratory has been awarded ...
How Organ-on-a-chip Models Could Grease the Drug Development Pipeline
Organ-on-a-chip models allow researchers to conduct studies closer to real-life conditions Bringing a new drug to market costs billions of ...
Killing Anthrax More Quickly with Hot Air Decontamination
New method to decrease the amount of time it takes for hot air decontamination to kill bacterial spores, such as ...
New Material Helps Train First Responders on Biothreats
NIST developed a new harmless surrogate threat material based on yeast, rather than inactivated pathogens, which can be used to ...
DARPA Pursues Advanced Threat-Detection for Crop Defense
DARPA’s Foundational Security for Food Systems (FS2) program will explore a pathway-based approach to provide advanced threat detection and warning ...
Texas Biomed at Forefront of Sudan ebolavirus Vaccine Development
A Sudan ebolavirus vaccine and antibody therapeutic tested at Texas Biomedical Research Institute have been sent to Uganda as part ...
Biodefense Headlines – 15 December 2022
News highlights on health security threats and countermeasures curated by Global Biodefense This week's selections include early lessons from Uganda’s ...
