What You Should Know:
- AstraZeneca and Care Access Research are teaming up to
provide decentralized, mobile research site operations for AstraZeneca’s
AZD7442 phase III clinical trial in the US.
- The Phase III clinical trial called STORM CHASER will
assess the safety and efficacy of AZD7442 for post-exposure prophylaxis and
pre-emptive treatment in approximately 1,125 participants in the US and UK.
Care Access Research, a decentralized research organization
(DRO) that operates as
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West Virginia Launches Nation’s First Statewide COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution
What You Should Know:
- West Virginians will now have access to a COVID-19
vaccination pre-registration tool available statewide.
- West Virginia is the first state in the nation to deploy this new system through Everbridge, a global provider of critical event management technologies. The tool enables West Virginians to pre-register for COVID-19 vaccination and receive updates through text, phone, and/or email.
President Joe Biden has made it his priority to tackle COVID-19
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Therma Fisher Acquires Rapid COVID-19 Test Provider Mesa Biotech for $450M
What You Should Know:
- Thermo
Fisher Scientific Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire
Mesa Biotech, Inc., a San Diego,
CA-based molecular diagnostic company, for approximately $450 million in cash.
Under the terms of the agreement, Thermo Fisher will pay up to an additional
$100 million in cash upon the completion of certain milestones following the
close of the transaction.
- Mesa Biotech designs, develops, manufactures, and commercializes next generation Rapid PCR
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87% of Americans Want to Receive COVID-19 Vaccine Information From Their Providers
What You Should Know:
According to a recent Updox survey, 87% of Americans say
they want to receive information from their healthcare provider on COVID-19
vaccine-related news/updates, with their healthcare providers cited as the most
trusted source on the topic (34%) -- behind health protection agencies (32%),
government entities (9%), and the biotechnology companies developing the
vaccines (4%).
When it comes to means of communication with their
healthcare provider, consumers’
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Uber, Moderna Partner to Increase Access to COVID-19 Vaccines
What You Should Know:
- Moderna and Uber announced a partnership to work together initially to provide accessible, credible information on COVID-19 vaccine safety through Uber’s in-app messaging.
- The two companies will also work with public health and
other organizations to identify additional opportunities to support ongoing
efforts to broaden access to COVID-19
vaccines.
- Additional options being evaluated include incorporating
ride scheduling directly into the immunization
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CVS Health to Provide In-Home Chemotherapy with Cancer Treatment Centers of America
What You Should Know:
- Today, CVS Health announced a collaboration with Cancer
Treatment Centers of America (CTCA) to provide in-home chemotherapy for
clinically eligible and fully insured patients.
- The program, which leverages CVS Health’s home infusion
service, Coram, and CTCA’s expertise as a top oncology care provider, aims to
minimize immunocompromised patients’ exposure to COVID-19 by offering an
alternative to inpatient or in-office cancer care.
- Through this program,
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Komodo Health Acquires Cloud-Based Life Sciences Platform Mavens- M&A
What You Should Know:
- Komodo Health announces the acquisition of Mavens, a cloud-based platform for life sciences to expand its software capabilities.
- The acquisition of Mavens offers customers a cloud-based platform with a suite of software that ends reliance on fragmented data and expensive single-point solutions.
Komodo Health today announced its acquisition of Mavens, a leader in cloud-based technology solutions for the life sciences. The acquisition will enable Komodo
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Verily, Broad, Microsoft Partner to Expand Life Sciences Research with Azure Cloud
What You Should Know:
- Verily and The Broad Institute have partnered with
Microsoft to expand health and life sciences research utilizing the Microsoft
Azure cloud.
- The new partnership brings together Microsoft’s cloud, data, and AI technologies, and a global network of more than 168,000 health and life sciences partners to accelerate the development of global biomedical research through the Terra platform, provide greater access and empower the open-source community.
Broad
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20 COVID-19 Predictions and Trends for 2021 – Executive Roundup
Dr. Justin Graham, Chief Medical Officer, GYANT
The rapid development of a COVID-19 vaccine is a monumental achievement, but it does nothing to address our extremely fragmented healthcare system. In 2021, policymakers must create and extend incentives to providers to work together to keep patients healthy rather than maximize profit. The pandemic has devastated the traditional fee-for-service budgets of many healthcare systems, and it isn't clear they will ever be able to catch up without
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Gladskin’s President Skyler Stein Talks Endolysin Technology – Q/A
We recently spoke with Skyler Stein, President of Dutch biotechnology company Gladskin to learn more about its global endolysin technology that uses its science to improve inflammatory skin conditions by rebalancing the skin microbiome. Gladskin's parent company, Micreos, raised about $36.7M in funding last year for its endolysin technology that is poised to replace many antibiotics and overcome some of the challenges of antimicrobial resistance.
HITC: Skyler, can you speak more
about
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