Wanted: People Willing to Get Sick to Find Coronavirus Vaccine March 19, 2020 – Posted in: Open Orphan (ORPH)

British lab is recruiting volunteers for study it says could speed development of Covid-19 vaccine By Denise Roland March 19, 2020 7:00 am ET Thousands of people have volunteered to be infected in the hope of finding a vaccine for the new coronavirus.  hVIVO, a clinical research group in London, has attracted more than 20,000 volunteers willing to be infected with tamer relatives of the virus that causes Covid-19 in exchange for a fee of…

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Drug companies pay for exclusive access to UK genetic data September 12, 2019 – Posted in: Open Orphan (ORPH)

Dive Brief: Four of the world’s largest drug companies have agreed to pay around $120 million for exclusive access to genetic data on hundreds of thousands of people. Amgen, AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, and Johnson & Johnson will each have nine months to pour over the first wave of genomic data coming out of UK Biobank before the global research community gets a chance to look at it. That initial wave will be available at the end…

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