The Sun – COVID-19: UK scientists to infect volunteers with coronavirus in world first vaccine trial November 25, 2020 – Posted in: Open Orphan (ORPH)

Would you lock yourself in a room for two weeks after being infected with COVID-19? Chris Holdsworth did, and he hopes that come January that’s exactly what he’ll be doing. Chris has volunteered to be a guinea pig for a world-first study that could take place in the UK in January. It’s called a Human Challenge Trial, and it involves shutting healthy volunteers in an isolation unit like this one and deliberately infecting them with…

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Open Orphan #ORPH: The Times – Inside Story of coronavirus battlers. The Sun – We salute the unsung key workers. April 27, 2020 – Posted in: Open Orphan (ORPH)

Inside stories of coronavirus battlers Aerogen, Hibergene, Open Orphan and Nearform Ireland was placed sixth last week in a list of nations ranked on their response to the Covid-19 crisis in terms of innovation. The league table was compiled by StartupBlink, a Swiss-Israeli company that collates data on start-ups; the United Nations-backed Health Innovation Index; the Moscow Agency of Innovations; and partners such as tech database provider Crunchbase. While the Republic has punched above its…

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