BIOTECHNOLOGY

Vox Medical reports the award calls for a biomarker discovery effort to determine the exhaled breath molecular species most suitable for use as a COVID-19 biomarker and methods of capture that can be implemented within the safety paradigm governing COVID-19 testing.

The company reports the US-driven international initiative to support the rapid development, manufacturing, and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines is progressing with many promising efforts to move towards Phase 3 clinical trials.

The company started working on an engine for target identification back in 2014. Since then, the technology has been validated through several successful partnering initiatives with pharmaceutical companies and research organizations as well as through Insilico Medicine's own internal drug development programs.

The company used their long-standing, certified laboratory partner, Myriad RBM, to conduct protein measurements on blood samples collected from children with Kawasaki disease and is developing commercial options for offering HART KD for children suspected of Kawasaki disease.

Agendia notes this study confirms findings from the STO-3 Trial, previously published in 2017 in JAMA Oncology, and continues to show that the use of MammaPrint to stratify patient populations could help prevent the overtreatment of breast cancer patients.

BioPorto notes it is designed to provide a qualitative result in under 10 minutes from a minimally invasive sample, and to be easily administered at the point of care, the test could provide a much-needed solution to help improve access to viral testing.

Immunexpress notes the first poster, titled "Clinical Performance of a Rapid Sepsis Test on a Near-Patient Molecular Testing Platform," details the clinical validation of SeptiCyte® RAPID. The study compares Immunexpress' rapid version of the SeptiCyte® assay on the Biocartis Idylla™ platform to SeptiCyte® LAB in patients located in the U.S. and Europe.

This collaboration combines the technological resources of both companies and will apply these to one of the world's largest cohorts of Barrett's esophagus patients with clinical outcome data, including patients who progressed to esophageal cancer.