Health and Human Services Biodefense Budget Oversight
The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education held an oversight hearing focused on the FY2019 ...
Tag: Pandemic
AbCellera to Lead Development of Rapid Response Platform Against Pandemic Threats
AbCellera Biologics Inc. this week announced that it was awarded a contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to ...
InDevR Launches Potency Test Kit for Pandemic Flu Vaccines
To enable a rapid vaccine response during a severe outbreak or pandemic, there is a pressing need for a potency ...
Stopping Pandemic X: DARPA Names Researchers Working to Halt Outbreaks
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) launched the Pandemic Prevention Platform (P3) program in 2017, with the eventual goal of halting the spread ...
DHS Announces Finalists in Biothreat Prize Competition
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T), in collaboration with the Office of Health Affairs National Biosurveillance Integration ...
Calculating Expected Economic Losses from a Pandemic
There is an unmet need for greater investment in preparedness against major epidemics and pandemics. The worldwide spread of a ...
BARDA BAA 2018: Pandemic Influenza, Infectious Diseases, CBRN Countermeasures
The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) is soliciting proposals for the advanced research and development of medical countermeasures ...
April Showers Bring…Pandemics?
Hypothetical seasonal flu epidemic spread is depicted here with the colors indicating regions currently infected with ...
PANDEMIC-17: Navy Administers Annual Flu Shot While Training for Pandemic Response
Personnel assigned throughout the U.S. Navy’s Command Navy Region Northwest (CNRNW) rolled up their sleeves Nov. 1-2 to administer a ...
Achaogen Gets Federal Funding for Biowarfare Agent Therapeutic Development
The U.S. federal government is backing an antibiotic that not only holds potential as a treatment for infections from certain ...
Pandemic Preparedness: Seqirus Quadruples Manufacturing Output for Flu Vaccine
Seqirus’ accelerated development of its cell-based manufacturing technology has quadrupled influenza vaccine output in just two years, according to a ...
Emergent Unveils Expanded CIADM Facility for Medical Countermeasure Preparedness
Emergent BioSolutions Inc. held a ribbon-cutting ceremony last week on May 10 to mark the formal opening of the company’s ...
CNN to Debut ‘Unseen Enemy’ Special on Pandemics
UNSEEN ENEMY, about the potential looming crisis of disease pandemics, will debut as a CNN Films broadcast for a World ...
2009 Pandemic Flu Vaccine Strategy Worked, But Effectiveness Varied By Age Group
A comprehensive review led by academics at The University of Nottingham has found that vaccines are successful in preventing pandemic ...
PHEMCE Review: Accomplishments and Future Areas of Opportunity
The United States continues to face national security risks from natural, accidental , and intentional health threats. Efforts to improve ...
DARPA Pandemic Prevention Platform (P3) Proposers Day Events
The Biological Technologies Office (BTO) of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is sponsoring two Proposers Day events in ...
We Are Grossly Unprepared for Major Outbreaks
The world remains "grossly underprepared" for outbreaks of infectious disease, which are likely to become more frequent in the coming ...
New Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Sets Sights on MERS-CoV, Lassa and Nipah
A global coalition to create new vaccines for emerging infectious diseases, designed to help give the world an insurance policy ...
How Our ‘Pathological Lives’ Boost Pandemic Flu Threat
A chicken broiler house in England. Credit: Steve Hinchliffe Rapidly rising global poultry numbers, along with ...
Microreact Epidemic Tracking Tool Embraces Open Data and Collective Intelligence
Researchers from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and Imperial College London have developed Microreact, a free, real-time epidemic visualization and ...
