Tag: COVID-19
DBT supported & Zydus driven COVID 19 vaccine, ZyCoV-D begins phase...
Vaccine Discovery Programme supported by the Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India under the National Biopharma Mission, implemented by BIRAC moves into clinical trials The study will assess the safety, tolerability and immunogenicity of the vaccine.................
Biophore ramps up Made-In-India Favipiravir production for Covid-19
Hyderabad-based Biophore India Pharmaceuticals has received the DCGI license to manufacture the API in India and has been cleared for export as well.................
Drug Discovery Hackathon training programme launched
The Drug Discovery Hackathon (DDH), 2020 training programme is an online platform to take open source drug discovery to a higher pedestal in the crusade against the COVID-19 pandemic...................
MIF offers grants worth INR 2.5 crores to fulfil immediate need...
Marico Innovation Foundation (MIF) has announced the conclusion of the #Innovate2BeatCOVID Grand Challenge with the selection of India’s top 3 innovative ‘Ventilators and Other Respiratory Solutions’, offering INR 85 lakhs in grants..............
India to emerge from the worst of COVID-19 by mid-October?
As per projections by the Times Fact-India Outbreak Report, Orissa, Bihar and West Bengal are showing signs as the next epicentre for COVID-19 in the country. The earlier hardest-hit states of Maharashtra and Delhi has made significant progress in reducing transmission rate...........
JNCASR spinoff launches molecular probes for use in COVID-19 test kits
The company has launched indigenous fluorescence probes and Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) mix for Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) detection which are molecular probes used in COVID-19 test kits.................
Premas Biotech SARS-Cov-2 vaccine candidate moves ahead for animal trials
The four-week placebo-controlled, blinded and randomized tests to be conducted in mice will seek to evaluate safety and examine immune response dose titration in the rodent model................
IIIT Delhi develops Artificial Intelligence model to repurpose existing drugs for...
Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Delhi, has worked on computational AI (Artificial Intelligence) model for drug repositioning in the treatment of COVID-19........................
CSIR-IGIB & IIT Alumni Council sign MoU for joint research to...
The joint research by CSIR-IGIB & IIT Alumni Council will focus on catalysing the creation of an ecosystem for diagnostics and therapeutics for COVID-19 as well as flexible platforms for pandemic preparedness.......................
Major healthcare federations come together to review private sector response to...
All major healthcare federations AHPI, FICCI, CII, NATHEALTH, ASSOCHAM, Indian Chamber of Commerce, PhD Chamber of Commerce, PHANA, NASSCOM and a number of nursing healthcare federations met in Delhi to take stock of the COVID situation..............