Alphabet subsidiary Verily has signed an agreement to acquire a clinical trial management system (CTMS) developer SignalPath to strengthen its clinical research capabilities. Established in 2014, SignalPath designed its CTMS platform to enhance the ease, quality and efficacy with which…
Labcorp and CCORN partner to enable trials in diverse cancer patients
Labcorp and Community Clinical Oncology Research Network (CCORN) have partnered to gain improved insights into the effect of disparities in precision medicine for cancer. The companies expect that data from a patient registry and biobank can aid in designing oncology…
Hoping to Change the Game, Bharat’s Intranasal Vaccine Moves Forward
When the first vaccine was authorized in December, it felt like a light at the end of a long, dark, pandemic tunnel. The mRNA vaccines, in particular, showed high efficacy rates at preventing severe illness from SARS-CoV-2. Yet scientists issued…
WHO launches Solidarity PLUS to assess three new drugs for Covid-19
The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched the new phase of its Solidarity clinical trial to assess three new drugs to treat patients hospitalised with Covid-19. Named Solidarity PLUS, the new trial will investigate artesunate, imatinib and infliximab, which are…
Five times more virtual trial job postings from pharma and CROs in 18 months
Covid-19 lockdowns and social distancing measures have caused significant disruptions to clinical trials and accelerated the use of virtual trials. Companies that had not considered this model before have had no option but to rapidly implement new technologies and procedures…
Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine gets emergency use nod from DCGI
The Drugs Controller General of India has granted restricted emergency use authorisation to Moderna for its Covid-19 vaccine. It has also allowed Cipla to import donated doses of vaccine. US vaccine manufacturing giant Moderna has secured restricted emergency use authorisation…
AbbVie, Google Sister Company – Calico raise their age-related disease alliance funding to $3.5bn
AbbVie and Alphabet spin-out Calico Life Sciences have agreed to fund their seven-year-old partnership seeking treatments for diseases of ageing with another $500 million apiece. The collaboration with Google sister company Calico – formed in 2014 with $1.5 billion in…
Google’s DeepMind puts human proteome online for free
The most complete database of protein structures ever assembled, developed with the help of Google’s artificial intelligence unit DeepMind, has been made freely available to researchers around the world. DeepMind partnered with the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) to come…
Nothing to sneeze at: nasal sprays to tackle Covid-19
Since the outbreak of Covid-19 worldwide, scientists and pharmaceutical companies alike have raced to find ways to protect against and treat the virus. One method of administration increasingly being pursued is the nasal spray; the cells lining the nose have…
Heart rate and respiration patterns measured digitally have the most potential for immediate use in clinical trials: Poll
Digital devices enable the measuring of biomarkers such as heart rate, blood sugar and even sleep that can help in assessing the health of a patient. Digital biomarkers measured by wearables, sensors and other digital devices are increasingly playing a…
