Tag Archives: Food and Drug Administration

The departments of Health and Human Services and Defense have signed a potential $1.5B agreement with Moderna to produce 100M doses of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate as part of the U.S. government’s Operation Warp Speed.

John Cyrus, formerly a senior information technology executive at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, has been named director of IT strategy and business solutions at HighPoint Global.

Four commercial and nonprofit organizations have won spots on a potential five-year, $90M blanket purchase agreement to conduct social science research for the Food and Drug Administration, FedHealthIT reported Friday.

The Food and Drug Administration is looking to deploy artificial intelligence-based capabilities to support the drug product assessments and business operations.

The General Services Administration and the Food and Drug Administration have partnered to support FDA’s information technology modernization efforts through GSA’s Centers of Excellence initiative.

The National Institutes of Health has launched a new initiative to accelerate the development and commercialization of testing technologies for the new coronavirus. The Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics program will use $1.5B in federal stimulus funds to invest in efforts that work on new COVID-19 testing technologies, NIH said Thursday.

The National Institutes of Health and three other U.S. health agencies have teamed up with the Foundation for the NIH, European Medicines Agency and 16 biopharmaceutical companies to speed up the development of vaccines and treatments for COVID-19. The Accelerating COVID-19 Therapeutic Interventions and Vaccines partnership will work to streamline clinical trials, coordinate regulatory processes and use assets to accelerate response to the coronavirus pandemic and other future health emergencies, NIH said Friday.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has responded to the COVID-19 pandemic by facilitating medical countermeasures to treat and prevent the disease and surveilling the medical product and food supply chains for potential shortages or disruptions and helping to mitigate impacts, the FDA reported Friday.

The Department of Health and Human Services has awarded Paratek Pharmaceuticals a potential a five-year, $169M contract to further develop an antibiotic drug as a potential treatment for inhalation anthrax.

Trenton Janda, a former U.S. Coast Guard medical officer and U.S. Army physician, has joined government health technology contractor Apprio as chief medical innovation officer.