June 2020

The UK government’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has published a guide to help England-based laboratory and research facilities understand how to work safely during the coronavirus pandemic:

gov.uk

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REGISTER VERY SOON for InformaConnect’s free-to-attend Clinical Trials Digital Week from 1-4 June. This global series of live educational webcasts and downloadable resources provides the latest insights for operational challenges and responding to a pandemic, partnerships, outsourcing and operations, technology in clinical trials, and clinical innovation:

ms.informaengage.com

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“Lessons from the crucible of crisis”, a timely article from Marcia McNutt, president of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC, USA:

science.sciencemag.org

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Clinical trials of the Russian-made coronavirus drug favipiravir enter final stage. It is being tested by Russian pharmaceutical investment firm ChemRar with the support of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF):

english.alarabiya.net

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According to a report from Reportlinker.com, the global Clinical Laboratory Services market is projected to grow by US$39.9 Billion by 2025, driven by a compounded growth of 5.3%. Hospital-based Laboratories have the potential to grow at over 5%:

reportlinker.com

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Britain should consider deliberately infecting volunteers involved in vaccine-testing projects, which is in line with World Health Organization proposals to set up such human challenge trials. Earlier this month, the WHO issued a 19-page set of guidelines on how these trials might operate:

theguardian.com