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Merck & Co., Inc. MRK announced that the European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (“CHMP”) issued a positive opinion to the Marketing Authorization Application (“MAA”) for its blockbuster drug, Keytruda for expanded use. The MAA...

Salesforce, the global leader in CRM, and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, announced that they will collaborate to help Gavi manage critical information to equitably distribute approximately two billion COVID-19 vaccines to 190 countries by the end of 2021. Fair, rapid...

UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said there is a mutated form of SARS-CoV-2 that may be causing a rise in infections in South East England. According to the UK’s Health Secretary Matt Hancock, there is a new variant of...

CPI, FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies and Teesside University announced a collaboration to accelerate the bioscience sector in the Tees Valley Region. Named the Northern Bio-Accelerator Partnership (NBioP), the new collaboration will create a bioprocessing, biomanufacturing and biopharmaceutical hub in the...

GCSA launched with a commitment to increase clinical research and trial capacity and quality in the UK as well as Globally. This will be achieved through the introduction of an industry leading standard for improving, maintaining and accrediting clinical...

Fusion Antibodies, pre-clinical antibody discovery, engineering and supply experts, and Queen’s University Belfast, leader in innovation and impact, have been awarded a £453,000 grant from Invest Northern Ireland to further expand their COVID-19 targeted research and development efforts. Within...

Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine has demonstrated an efficacy of over 90 percent, according to the Gamaleya Center and the Russian Direct Investment Fund. “Evaluation of efficacy was carried out among volunteers 21 days after receiving the first dose of the...