The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) launched a new survey this week to assess the vaccine manufacturing capacity and capabilities of Africa, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America, to better inform ahead of future epidemics.
“While incredible efforts were... Read More »
In the wake of a pandemic response that had been hobbled initially by a lack of domestic medical supplies and an overreliance on foreign supply chains, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Gary Peters (D-MI) held an oversight hearing with supply chain,... Read More »
U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) called on the Senate to double the funding for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) through his amendment to the Endless Frontiers Act.
Sasse said increasing DARPA’s funding to $7 billion a year for the next five years would allow America to compete... Read More »
Reps. John Katko (R-NY), ranking member of the House Committee on Homeland Security, and Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, are encouraging the Biden administration to develop and maintain an economic restoration plan under the National Defense... Read More »
House Committee on Homeland Security members said the body has advanced seven bills designed to bolster cybersecurity.
“As many Americans witnessed just last week, cyber-attacks have the potential to disrupt our daily lives and impact our economic and national security,” Rep. John Katko... Read More »
Bavarian Nordic A/S and Johnson & Johnson (J&J) announced this week that they will support World Health Organization (WHO) led efforts to contain the spread of Ebola in West Africa through the donation of up to 200,000 doses of J&J’s vaccine regimen.
The partnership owes to the fact that... Read More »
Up to $4.1 million in non-dilutive funding from nonprofit CARB-X was announced this week for Summit Therapeutics to help develop a first-in-class antibiotic to treat multidrug-resistant infections, and specifically, carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) infections.
This funding will aid... Read More »
The top two executives of Emergent BioSolutions Inc. on Wednesday promised to provide additional documentation requested by congressional lawmakers who are investigating the Maryland-based biopharmaceutical company’s failure to manufacture usable coronavirus vaccines under a contract with the... Read More »
U.S. Reps. Emanual Cleaver, II (D-MO), Bennie Thompson (D-MS), John Katko (R-NY), and 12 other members of the Committee on Homeland Security re-introduced legislation to secure pipelines and pipeline facilities.
The legislation would address cyberattacks, terrorist attacks, and other efforts to... Read More »
Reps. Vern Buchanan (R-FL) and Chris Pappas (D-NH) introduced this week a measure designed to help reduce synthetic drug access.
The Federal Initiative to Guarantee Health by Targeting (FIGHT) Fentanyl Act seeks to make permanent the current, temporary classification of fentanyl-related... Read More »
A Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.-created drug cocktail of casirivimab with imdevimab, REGEN-COV, was recently shown to provide a 70 percent reduced risk of hospitalization or death and shortened symptom duration in non-hospitalized patients afflicted with COVID-19.
The drug cocktail is meant... Read More »
Across all adult age groups, going as high as 95 years old, a phase two trial of the Sanofi and GSK adjuvanted recombinant COVID-19 vaccine candidate has demonstrated high antibody responses and no safety concerns, according to interim data released this week.
Strong immune responses included a... Read More »
The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) recently awarded a $100,000 contract to Charles River Analytics for the creation of a means to assemble information from global trade networks and pharmaceutical drug data and present it in a way that would allow quick identification of problems in the supply... Read More »
U.S. Reps Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), chair of the Committee on Homeland Security, and John Katko (R-NY), the committee’s ranking member, on Friday introduced legislation to form a bipartisan, independent commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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U.S. Sens. Marco Rubio (R-FL), Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and Tim Kaine (D-VA) are encouraging the Biden administration to devise a plan enabling any surplus COVID-19 vaccine to be forwarded to Latin America and the Caribbean.
The legislators sent correspondence to President Joe Biden regarding the... Read More »
