Let’s Not Forget About the Other Respiratory Viruses
With all the focus on COVID-19, let’s not forget about rhinoviruses, influenza, RSV, and adenoviruses. With coronaviruses taking over our ...
Tag: Adenovirus
Laboratory Reagents for NAMRU-6’s Virology & Emerging Infections Department
The Naval Medical Research Unit 6 (NAMRU-6) is seeking to purchase laboratory reagents to be used for molecular diagnosis of ...
Intravenous Brincidofovir May Improve Countermeasure’s Tolerability
Broad-spectrum antiviral Brincidofovir has shown favorable tolerability in its intravenous formulation, according to preclinical data presented by Chimerix at the ...
Positive Preliminary Results for Thermostable Ebola Vaccine
Soligenix, Inc. this week announced positive preliminary proof-of-concept results from its collaboration with University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (UH Mānoa) ...
DoD Awards 35M Adenovirus Vaccine Contract
Oral adenovirus vaccine tablets. Image credit: U.S. Army Medical Materiel Development Activity The Adenovirus vaccine has been protecting military trainees ...
NIAID’s Pre-Clinical Models of Infectious Diseases Program
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (DMID) has a requirement to ...
Positive Data for Janssen, Bavarian Nordic Ebola Vaccine Regimen
Data from a Phase 1 study of a preventive Ebola vaccine regimen suggests that the regimen was well-tolerated by healthy ...
Protein Sciences Awarded DoD Grant for Novel Adenovirus Vaccine
Protein Sciences Corporation this week announced that they have been awarded a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant ...
Notable Contracts: BioFire Respiratory Panels for NAMRU-6
The Naval Medical Logistics Command (NMLC) recently announced intentions to award a sole source contract to BioFire Defense in support of ...
U.S. Moves Forward with Stockpiling of Second Smallpox Antiviral
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced intentions to procure up to 1.7 million courses of ...
Second Partner Backs UH Effort to Develop Thermostable Ebola Vaccine
Soligenix, Inc. last week announced a collaboration agreement with Axel Lehrer, PhD, of the UH Mānoa Department of Tropical Medicine, ...
BAA – Naval Health Research Center (NHRC)
The Naval Health Research Center (NHRC) has issued an updated Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) identifying scientific and technical areas of ...
Foot-and-Mouth Disease Vaccine Field Trials
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T), Chemical and Biological Division (CBD), Agricultural Defense Branch ...
NIAID/GSK Ebola Vaccine Prompts Immune Response
The candidate Ebola vaccine developed collaboratively by scientists at NIAID’s Vaccine Research Center and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) was shown to be ...
DoD Awards 29M for Adenovirus Vaccine
The U.S. federal government has recently awarded the following notable contract related to the field of chemical, biological, radiological and ...
HHS Backs 3 Ebola Vaccines with PREP Protections
Health and Human Services today announced a declaration under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act to facilitate the ...
Rare and Emerging Viral Disease Impact on Special Populations
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has a requirement for the development of therapeutic strategies for select ...
NIAID/GSK Experimental Ebola Vaccine Appears Safe
A 39-year-old woman, the first participant enrolled in VRC 207, receives a dose of the investigational NIAID/GSK Ebola vaccine. Results ...
Second Ebola Vaccine Trial in Switzerland
Swissmedic, the Swiss regulatory authority for therapeutic products, has approved a second Swiss trial of an experimental Ebola vaccine. The ...
Inhaled Ebola Vaccine Shows Promise in Pre-Clinical Study
A breathable vaccine in development has been shown to provide long-term protection for non-human primates against the deadly Ebola virus. A ...
