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Kaneka Agrees to Supply Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients for Avigan Tablet
Kaneka Corporation (President: Minoru Tanaka) has reached an agreement with FUJIFILM Corporation (President: Kenji Sukeno) to supply drug substances for anti-influenza drug, Avigan® Tablet (general name: favipiravir), for the novel coronavirus disease (referred to below as COVID-19).
While COVID-19 continues...
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2020 CPhI Pharma Awards are Open for Entries
Best practices in the pharma and biotech industries will take centre stage at the 17th Annual CPhI Pharma Awards, powered by Informa Pharma Intelligence. Leaders and luminaries from across global pharma and biotech will recognize and honour the accomplishments...
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Sygnature Discovery provides state-of-the-art liquid handling machine to UK Government’s COVID-19 testing efforts
Sygnature Group is supporting the Government’s COVID-19 testing strategy with the loan of a key piece of equipment. The machine, a Tecan Freedom EVO 100, will be used to help automate and accelerate the analysis of samples at the...
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Leading Life Sciences and Information Technology Companies Join EndPandemic National Data Consortium to Integrate COVID-19 Clinical Data
The EndPandemic National Data Consortium announced that it has received commitments from six leading life sciences and information technology companies to join the Consortium, the formation of which was announced on March 30, 2020. The companies will work together...
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Montgomery County Partners With Real Time Medical Systems To Detect Nursing Facility COVID-19 Cases Days Earlier
Montgomery County, PA, has teamed up with Real Time Medical Systems to provide 24/7 electronic Infectious Disease Surveillance of nursing facilities in the county, who have volunteered to share their data. The cloud-based software pulls data from the electronic...
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Teva ships India’s first consignment of hydroxychloroquine to the US
After the initial uncertainty over export of hydroxychloroquine from India, a drug used in the fight against Covid-19, the first consignment of the medicine has reached the United States.
Israeli drugmaker Teva has exported the drug from its Goa plant...
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Feinstein Institutes to Collect COVID-19 Patient Plasma, Research Antibodies Therapy
The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, the research arm of Northwell Health, has formally joined a national network formed by Mayo Clinic to collect convalescent plasma from patients previously identified with COVID-19, but no longer symptomatic.
The US Food and...
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