Preclinical Research

Weekly FDA COVID-19 update

07-May-2020 By Jenni Spinner

The agency continues to remain busy overseeing and approving potential treatments and tests for the virus behind the global pandemic.

CDISC launches COVID-19 research standards task force

30-Apr-2020 By Jenni Spinner

The group will work to rapidly develop guidance on standardizing COVID-19 research data, with the help of several participating member companies.

Almac Discovery collaborates with Merck on DUB targets

30-Apr-2020 By Jenni Spinner

The partnership will focus on generating novel small-molecule inhibitors against specific DUB targets for treatment of a range of diseases.

This week’s FDA COVID-19 news

30-Apr-2020 By Jenni Spinner

The agency continues to offer guidance about COVID-19 treatments and tests—and issue warnings to companies that fall out of line.

CAS open-access dataset to help COVID-19 research

28-Apr-2020 By Jenni Spinner

CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, has released a dataset of chemical compounds with known or potential antiviral capabilities.

Butterworth Labs adopts COVID-19 crisis measures

27-Apr-2020 By Jenni Spinner

The pharmaceutical analysis firm is continuing its contract analytical laboratory services running, with changes designed to keep people and products safe.

FDA update on COVID-19 actions and advisements

23-Apr-2020 By Jenni Spinner

Over the past week, the agency has issued guidances, taken action to accelerate treatments and put a stop to fraudulent treatments for the pandemic-causing virus.

Researchers hold ‘study-a-thon’ to tackle COVID-19

23-Apr-2020 By Jenni Spinner

The Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics community gathered virtually from around the globe to create studies based on health databases.

Vanda Pharmaceuticals partners with UIC on COVID-19 research

21-Apr-2020 By Jenni Spinner

The company and the University of Illinois at Chicago will work together to identify novel antivirals against COVID-19.

Pharmaseal offers no-cost CTMS for COVID-19 trials

09-Apr-2020 By Jenni Spinner

The company is making its Engility clinical trial management system available to trials on developing tests, treatments and vaccines for the virus.

Veeva Data Cloud promises innovative, open approach

07-Apr-2020 By Jenni Spinner

The company’s Data Cloud platform is designed to increase the innovation, openness and flexibility of using patient and prescriber data.

BioData free video conferencing enables COVID-19 collaboration

06-Apr-2020 By Jenni Spinner

The company has integrated a video conferencing and documentation tool to its Labguru electronic laboratory notebook at no charge during the pandemic.