The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced on 9 Nov that an emergency use authorization (EUA) has been issued for a rapid, single-use test for the detection of Ebola virus ( Zaire [Read more]
The American Society for Microbiology’s 2019 ASM Biothreats meeting will be held January 29–31, 2019, in Arlington, Virginia. This leading annual event, formerly known as the ASM Biodefense and Emerging Diseases Research Meeting, [Read more]
The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) is seeking partners to advance technology developed for in vitro diagnostic devices that are amenable to military hardening and integration with communication capabilities to support the medical [Read more]
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) is developing a strategic framework to advance tuberculosis (TB) research and development for the next five years and beyond. The NIAID TB Strategic [Read more]
The 4th Annual Biodefense World Summit will be held June 27-29, 2018 in Bethesda, Maryland. The event brings together stakeholders from government, academia, and industry for compelling discussions and networking opportunities. Conference [Read more]
See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including regulation of genetically engineered livestock, chemical weapons investigators in Douma, and the latest news on rapid diagnostics. POLICY + INITIATIVES GAO asks [Read more]
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) has been awarded a contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop a next generation Portable Diagnostic Platform for personnel to quickly self-perform testing [Read more]
The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) has awarded funding to Tangen BioSciences for advanced development of the company’s rapid anthrax diagnostic. The $3,199,221 base period award was announced by BARDA [Read more]
By Joshua Hutton The recent outbreak of pneumonic plague in Madagascar presents a test case as to how well the international community has learned lessons from the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak in West [Read more]
Scientists have developed a fast and easy-to-use point-of-care diagnostic test that could one day help doctors and hospitals head off the rapid spread of the flu. The gold standard of flu diagnostics [Read more]
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