If authorized, the pill would be the first of its kind to treat Covid.
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Pfizer Signs Deal To Share Its Covid Antiviral Pill With Low Income Nations
The pharmaceutical giant and its development partner Ridgeback Therapeutics signed a licensing deal that will boost access to their new drug.
Pfizer Says Its Covid Pill Reduced Risk Of Hospitalization And Death By 89% In Clinical Study
The pharmaceutical giant will submit the data to the FDA to continue its application for emergency use authorization.
VC Firm 11.2 Capital Raises $101 Million To Back More ‘Deep Tech’ Companies Like Ginkgo Bioworks And Hinge Health
Las Vegas-based Shelley Zhuang was an early investor in Cruise, Ginkgo Bioworks and Hinge Health. Now she has $101,010,101 for a second “deep tech” fund.
Y Combinator Names Surbhi Sarna Its First-Ever Partner For Healthcare And Biotech
Subhi Sarna sold nVision Medical for $275 million in 2018. Now she’s been named Y Combinator’s first-ever group partner focused on healthcare and biotech as part of a pandemic-fueled deeper focus from the startup accelerator.
InnovationRx: Shatner’s Trek And A Startup Stopping Nurse Shortages
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InnovationRx: Nobel Prizes, A Malaria Vaccine And Covid’s Batty Relatives
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2021 Lasker Awards Honor Neuroscience Researchers, A Biomedical Legend And mRNA Vaccine Pioneers
This year’s awards, sometimes nicknamed “America’s Nobels” honors the researchers who developed the foundation for Covid-19 vaccines and other medical innovators.
2022 Breakthrough Prizes Announced: mRNA Vaccine Pioneers Awarded $3 Million
Drew Weissman and Katalin Kariko, whose work was fundamental in developing the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna Covid vaccines, were among the winners of the annual awards given to noteworthy scientists.
InnovationRx: Theranos On Trial; Plus, Idaho Rations Hospital Care
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