BARDA Public Health and Medical Consequence Modeling Network
The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Agency Division of Analytic Decision Support (BARDA/ADS) is seeking tools to support decision-making against ...
Tag: Pandemic
Glaxo Teams with Texas A&M for Influenza Manufacturing Center of Excellence
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and The Texas A&M University System this month formally announced that the U.S. Department of Health and Human ...
Government Building ‘Fill and Finish’ Network for Pandemic Influenza Vaccines
The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) is looking to ...
Obama Signs Pandemics and All-Hazards Preparedness Act of 2013
The Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Reauthorization Act (PAHPRA) of 2013 was signed into law yesterday by President Barack Obama. The ...
New Tool to Estimate Pandemic Threats from Zoonotic Viruses
Researchers from the Imperial College London and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have identified a simple new ...
Universal Influenza Antiviral Breakthrough
Scientists from Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) have helped to design a new drug to safeguard against epidemic ...
NIAID Centers of Excellence for Influenza Research and Surveillance BAA
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) is in the final stages of accepting proposals under a recompetition ...
UGA Secures NIH Funding for Emerging Influenza Strain Detection
The National Institutes of Health have awarded funding to University of Georgia researchers to refine a nanotechnology-based method that uses ...
Congress Passes Pandemic All-Hazard Preparedness Act
The U.S. House of Representatives today approved the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Reauthorization Act of 2013, H.R. 307. The legislation, ...
Pandemic Lessons from the Koala Retrovirus
“To understand what it means to be human, you have to understand koalas. Or, to be more precise, you have ...
Emergent BioSolutions Secures Rights to Pandemic Influenza Vaccine Candidate
Emergent BioSolutions Inc., maker of the only U.S. approved anthrax vaccine, announced at the end of 2012 it has signed ...
HHS Announces Pandemic Preparedness Contracts to Top Pharma
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has taken historic steps to support the nation’s pandemic preparedness efforts ...
The Risks of Pandemic Flu from Animals: New Seal H3N8 Influenza Strain
A novel strain of influenza virus has been identified as having crossed over from birds to aquatic mammals, causing an ...
DARPA Program Hits Milestone in Plant-Based Vaccines for Pandemics
In a recent milestone development under the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) “Blue Angel” program, researchers at Medicago Inc. ...
Biosurveillance: Most Likely Airports to Spread a Pandemic
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) have developed a new tool ...
New Study Estimates Swine Flu Pandemic Killed Over 284,500 People
The World Health Organization official death toll of the 2009 swine flu pandemic was numbered at 18,500. That figure was ...
BARDA Multi-BAA Pre-Proposal Conference for CBRN, Influenza Countermeasures
The Biological Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) has confirmed a July 16, 2012 Pre-Proposal Conference in Washington D.C. to ...
Emergent Biosolutions, Novartis, Texas A&M to Lead New Biodefense Centers
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) this week awarded major contracts to establish three new “Centers for Innovation ...
UW, UTMB and Kineta Awarded Grant for Biodefense Antivirals
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has awarded an $8.1M biodefense grant to develop new drugs to treat ...
New North American Pandemic Influenza Plan Released
A joint plan between the United States, Canada and Mexico for pandemic influenza preparedness was released this week during the ...
