OraSure Awarded $13.6M From BARDA to Advance COVID-19 Rapid Test
BARDA renews collaboration with OraSure Technologies to support InteliSwab™ COVID-19 Rapid Test 510(k) Clearance and CLIA Waiver BARDA and OraSure ...
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Watch: BARDA Director Talks About Emergency Use Authorization of Third COVID-19 Vaccine
Gary Disbrow, Ph.D., BARDA Director at HHS/ASPR, explains the public-private collaboration and platform technologies brought to bear for COVID-19 vaccines. ...
BioFactura Funded $13M Contract Option for Smallpox Biodefense Therapeutic
BioFactura, Inc. today announced a contract option activation of over $13 million by the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority ...
FDA Authorizes Moderna COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine for Emergency Use
On Friday, the Food and Drug Administration announced that it had issued an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for Moderna’s mRNA-1273 ...
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 ...
DRIVE ReDIRECT: Program Seeks to Develop Countermeasures Against Chemical Threats
The rapid availability of effective medical countermeasures against chemical exposures, from either accidents or chemical weapons attack, is critical in ...
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 ...
FDA Approves First Ebola Therapeutic
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration this week approved Inmazeb, previously called REGN-EB3, a mixture of three monoclonal antibodies made ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
Establishing a Regional Disaster Health Response System in the U.S.
At the multi-state level, the Regional Disaster Health Response System (RDHRS) will cultivate and establish mechanisms for sharing the clinical ...
How Are Victims Surviving Novichok Poisoning?
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is likely to survive a suspected poisoning with the nerve agent Novichok, according to the ...
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 ...
DuPont to Produce up to 4.5 Million TYVEK Protective Suits for U.S. Healthcare Workers
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced an agreement with DuPont to expedite the delivery of critical ...
HHS Announces Ventilator Contract with Philips under Defense Production Act
The Department of Health and Human Services announced the second contract for ventilator production rated under the Defense Production Act ...
