What You Should Know:
Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the University of
California, San Francisco (UCSF) collaborate on two projects
involving sequencing the genomes of the viruses infecting hundreds of
COVID-19 patients in the Bay Area using CRISPR gene-technology in a clinical
research study.
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
announced this week it has offered their support and donated service credits
provided by the AWS Diagnostic
Development Initiative for
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SubjectWell Launches Patient Registry of 10k+ Patients for COVID-19 Clinical Trials
What You Should Know:
- SubjectWell launches a patient registry list of 10,000 individuals in the US interested in participating in COVID-19 clinical trials and research.
- The new COVID-19 patient registry will accelerate the patient recruitment process for COVID-19 research, giving researchers access to interested individuals who could randomize for various types of trials, whether they are healthy volunteers with no previous exposure to COVID-19, currently sick with the virus, or who
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Change Healthcare Launches COVID-19 Research Database Using De-Identified Data to Track Disease Progression
What You Should Know:
- Change Healthcare announced a new online COVID-19 research database to track disease progression, treatment efficacy, for qualified public and private healthcare organizations using de-identified data to understand disease progression and improve intervention.
- Actionable insight “beyond the diagnosis” enables health researchers to better understand COVID-19 progression, intervention effectiveness, and impacts on the healthcare system.
Today
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BrightInsight, CSL Behring Form Global Digital Health Partnership
What You Should Know:
- CSL Behring selects the BrightInsight Platform to build and manage its digital health solutions within a regulatory-compliant environment.
- The digital health partnership extends across therapeutic areas, including immunology, hematology and respiratory, among others.
BrightInsight,
Inc., a provider of the regulated IoT platform for biopharma and medtech,
and CSL Behring, a leading
biotechnology company, announced a global digital health partnership
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Janssen Pharmaceuticals Collaborates with Alveo on Rapid At-Home COVID-19 Test
What You Should Know:
- Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen Pharmaceuticals company announced it is working with Alveo Technologies, an innovative diagnostic testing company, to help bring its COVID-19 rapid at-home self-testing platform for viral infectious diseases to market.
- Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen Pharmaceuticals company will work with and fund Alveo to accelerate research and development of be.well .
- Alveo will
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AiCure Launches Platform to Remotely Capture Digital Biomarkers in Clinical Trials
What You Should Know:
- AiCure launches digital biomarker platform to remotely detect subtle changes in a patient's condition, leverages computer vision and AI to gather and analyze visual and auditory cues directly through the patient's smartphone camera.
- AiCure appoints Ed Ikeguchi, M.D. as its Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to advance AiCure's commitment to improving holistic health through an understanding of the science behind human responses to illness and treatment.
AiCure,
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Airforce to Deploy FDA-Approved Oral Fluid COVID-19 Tests Across US Military
What You Should Know:
COVID-19 testing startup Curative Inc. and Gothams announced it has signed an agreement (phase one is $13m USD) with the U.S. Air Force to deploy its FDA-authorized oral fluid COVID-19 tests and comprehensive testing service to U.S. military personnel around the world.
In this initial agreement, Curative will rapidly
establish a new laboratory facility, fully operational this week, which will
process
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Central, Searchable Repository for all COVID-19 Clinical Trials Launches
What You Need to Know:
- Inato unveils central, searchable repository for all COVID-19 clinical trials designed to support clinical researchers, physicians, and biopharma organizations.
- By centralizing all clinical studies being conducted worldwide and updating trial trends with new information from public registries and aggregators daily, Inato seeks to optimize COVID-19 clinical trial resource allocation and help address any unmet needs as quickly as possible.
Paris-based (and
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IntegriChain Acquires Cumberland’s Life Sciences Division
What You Should Know:
- IntegriChain acquires Cumberland’s Life Sciences division to create life sciences' only comprehensive data and business process platform for market access and commercialization.
- Together, the analytics, applications, managed services and expert advisory services powers 220+ Life Sciences manufacturers' operations and harness the value of their channel, patient and payer data.
IntegriChain, a leading Life Sciences data, and managed services company that
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Medtronic Awarded Emergency Authorization for Compact Ventilator to Support COVID-19 Patients
What You Should Know:
- The company received authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to offer the PB560 ventilator in the U.S. through the agency’s Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) authority.
- Lightweight and compact, the Puritan Bennett™ 560 portable ventilator helps enable patients to live with greater independence while providing caregivers with the peace of mind that comes with a reliable and trusted ventilation system with long battery life.
Medtronic
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