OHDSI Awarded $10M FDA Contract to Monitor Safety and Effectiveness of Vaccines, Biologics
Researchers within the Observational Health Data Services and Informatics (OHDSI) community were recently awarded a $10 million contract from the ...
Tag: Awards
Virginia Tech Awarded USDA Grant to Study Survival of SARS-CoV-2 on Food Supply Chain Surfaces
From the delivery of an Amazon package to ordering takeout food, people touch a multitude of surfaces every day, leaving ...
Inflammatix Secures Additional BARDA Funding to Advance ViraBac EZ Acute Infection Test
Second tranche of BARDA funding supports diagnostics designed to read immune system and rapidly diagnose acute infection. The test will ...
InBios Awarded $12.7M to Boost Production of Two COVID-19 Diagnostics
With the additional pandemic-response funding investment by the U.S. federal government, InBios International will increase their COVID-19 diagnostic test production ...
BARDA Awards Medical Countermeasures Clinical Studies Network Contracts
New contract awards by the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) will support three integrated components of the Medical ...
CRDF Global Selected to Support Biological Threat Reduction Program Contracts
CRDF Global, an independent, nonprofit organization based in Arlington, Va., has been awarded two subcontracts from Leidos in support of ...
MIS-C Detection: BARDA Invests in Rapid Diagnostic for Pediatric Complication of SARS-CoV-2
In the United States, more than 1,000 children have been diagnosed with Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C), a severe ...
U.S. Invests in Pandemic Vaccine Manufacturing Capacity with $31M Contract to Cytiva
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Department of Defense this week announced an agreement with Cytiva to ...
DoD Expands U.S. Domestic Diagnostics Capacity with $481M Cue Health Deal
Cue Health Inc. will receive an $481 Million contract from the Department of Defense (DOD), on behalf of the U.S. ...
NIH Funds a $9.3M Center for Precision Animal Modeling at UAB
Precision disease modeling involves creation of patient-specific disease models that mimic the molecular character of a condition present in a ...
BARDA and JPEO-CBRND Back Cepheid’s Multiplex Test for Influenza, SARS-CoV2 and RSV
During the upcoming flu season, public health and medical professionals will require diagnostic tools to determine if a patient with ...
Renowned Tick Immunobiologist to Develop Lyme Disease Vaccine Under New $3.5M Federal Grant
Dr. Utpal Pal wants to adapt the rabies vaccination platform to produce antibodies that can protect against Borrelia burgdorferi, the ...
NIH RADx Initiative Advances Six New COVID-19 Testing Technologies
The National Institutes of Health, working in collaboration with the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), announced on Oct. ...
Basilea Awarded Additional Funding from U.S. Medical Countermeasure Program for Ceftobiprole Development
The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) is providing additional support to Basilea Pharmaceutica to continue and complete Phase ...
National COVID-19 Vaccination Strategy: DoD Awards $125M to Goldbelt Security
The Department of Defense (DOD) awarded $125 million to Goldbelt Security, LLC on Aug. 31, 2020 to procure 530 million ...
USAMMDA to Manage Tier 1 Acquisition Program for Three COVID-19 Countermeasures
Ophirex's Phospholipase A2 Inhibitor (Varespladib) for treatment of SARS-CoV-2, InBios International's SARS-CoV-2 Rapid Diagnostic Lateral Flow Tests for direct antigen ...
NIAID Establishes New Global Network to Focus on Spillover Potential of Emerging Diseases
The new Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases (CREID) — comprised of 10 research centers and a coordinating center — is ...
DoD Awards $450M Contract for Coronavirus Antibody Manufacturing
Advanced Technology International (ATI) is a nonprofit who builds and manages collaborations that conduct research and develop new technologies to ...
This Atomically Thin Detector Could Become a Biotech Breakthrough
A technology spun from carbon nanotube sensors discovered 20 years ago by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory scientists could one day ...
NIH Grants to Fund Studies of Parasitic Infections Affecting Millions Worldwide
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have received two grants from the National Institutes of Health ...
