International regulators pledge collective support to combat COVID-19 pandemic

28 April 2020 - EMA has endorsed a joint COVID-19 statement published today by the International Coalition of Medicines Regulatory ...

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NIH to launch public-private partnership to speed COVID-19 vaccine and treatment options

17 April 2020 - The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Foundation for the NIH are bringing together more than ...

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Sanofi and GSK to join forces in unprecedented vaccine collaboration to fight COVID-19

14 April 2020 - Candidate vaccine expected to enter clinical trials in the second half of 2020 and, if successful, to ...

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Global plasma leaders collaborate to accelerate development of potential COVID-19 hyperimmune therapy

6 April 2020 - Partnership brings together world-leading plasma companies to focus on developing and delivering a hyperimmune immunoglobulin in the ...

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International regulators discuss available knowledge supporting COVID-19 medicine development

3 April 2020 - On 2 April, regulators from around the world joined the second workshop on COVID-19 organised by ...

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COVID-19 has changed how the world does science, together

1 April 2020 - Never before, scientists say, have so many of the world’s researchers focused so urgently on a single ...

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Crowdsourcing to fight COVID-19

26 March 2020 - “We are trying to fly the plane while we are building it.”  ...

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FDA continues to support transparency and collaboration in drug approval process as the clinical data summary pilot concludes

26 March 2020 - As our society becomes more global, it has become increasingly clear that the U.S. FDA needs to ...

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Novartis and life sciences companies commit expertise and assets to the fight against COVID-19 pandemic alongside Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

26 March 2020 - Collaboration to address product development and scale up challenges posed by current pandemic. ...

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FDA and EMA collaborate to facilitate SARS-CoV-2 vaccine development

23 March 2020 - Vaccines offer a way to build immunity to a disease-causing microorganism before one has ever been exposed ...

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Call to pool research resources into large multi-centre, multi-arm clinical trials to generate sound evidence on COVID-19 treatments

19 March 2020 - EMA’s Human Medicines Committee has published a statement urging the EU research community to prioritise large randomised ...

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International work-sharing initiative - baloxavir marboxil (Xofluza)

5 March 2020 - The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has approved a new medicine for the treatment of influenza (flu) as ...

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Engaging patients in medicines regulation: a tale of two agencies

2 December 2019 - The EMA and the US FDA have committed to engaging patients in their regulatory processes to promote ...

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Teva, drug makers in talks with U.S. to end generics probes

26 November 2019 - Deferred prosecution agreements among resolutions discussed. ...

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Acalabrutinib receives TGA approval for CLL and SLL cancers

25 November 2019 - The Therapeutic Goods Administration has approved the use of acalabrutinib (Calquence) for the treatment of patients ...

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