Dino Mustafić

March 21, 2020 Off

FDA warns about fraudulent COVID-19 test kits for home use

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is actively and aggressively monitoring the market for any firms marketing products with fraudulent coronavirus (COVID-19) diagnostic, prevention and treatment claims as part of our ongoing efforts to protect public health during this pandemic. As a result of these activities, the agency is beginning to see unauthorized fraudulent test kits that are being marketed to test for COVID-19 in the home.

March 18, 2020 Off

Oxford Biomedica, Juno Therapeutics in LentiVector deal

By Dino Mustafić

Oxford Biomedica has signed a new Licence and Clinical Supply Agreement (LSA) with Bristol-Myers Squibb’s company, Juno Therapeutics to use Oxford Biomedica’s LentiVector platform for its application in CAR-T and TCR-T programmes in oncology and other indications.

March 18, 2020 Off

Merck testing gefapixant in reducing cough frequency in adult

By Dino Mustafić

Merck said on Tuesday it got top-line efficacy results from two its pivotal Phase 3 trials (COUGH-1 and COUGH-2) testing…

March 17, 2020 Off

Pfizer, BioNTech enter clinical testing of COVID-19 prevention vaccine in April

By Dino Mustafić

Pfizer and BioNTech on Tuesday said they have executed a Material Transfer and Collaboration Agreement to enable the parties to immediately start working together on a potential mRNA-based coronavirus vaccine for preventing COVID-19 infection.

March 16, 2020 Off

BioNTech, Fosun Pharma, Pfizer working on COVID-19 vaccine. Clinical testing in Germany in April

By Dino Mustafić

BioNTech SE said Monday its development a potential vaccine to induce immunity and prevent COVID-19 infection in response to the growing global health threat posed by the disease has seen rapid progress. BioNTech’s product candidate, BNT162, is a potential first-in-class mRNA vaccine in the worldwide effort against COVID-19.

March 16, 2020 Off

Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield’s market update on the impact of COVID-19

By Dino Mustafić

The COVID-19 crisis continues to evolve rapidly and in recent days several governments in the markets in which Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (“URW”)…

March 15, 2020 Off

WHO: How to control and prevent COVID-19 in schools

By Dino Mustafić

The World Health Organisation has issued a guideline to keep safety in schools. We have outlined the most important keys…

March 15, 2020 Off

– Opinion: Could Trump prevent spending $50Bn?

By Dino Mustafić

American president Donald Trump has announced radical measures last week; closing entering the USA for European citizens, curbing flights in general, and has announced a national emergency. Only two weeks earlier he was skeptical about the outbreak of the coronavirus in the USA.

March 15, 2020 Off

How do pharmaceutical companies profit from COVID-19? (do they?)

By Dino Mustafić

How do pharmaceutical companies prophet from COVID-19? Do they make the profit?

March 13, 2020 Off

IBM Watson Health and EBSCO partner up

By Dino Mustafić

IBM Watson Health and EBSCO Information Services Thursday announced a strategic collaboration aimed towards enhancing clinical decision support (CDS) and operations for healthcare providers and health systems.