Industry & Policy News

[National Institutes of Health] The Complement Animal Research In Experimentation Challenge Prize competition offered $1,000,000 in total prize money to diverse teams with ideas for new ways of using New Approach Methodologies to conduct basic research, uncover disease mechanisms, and translate knowledge into products and practice.

[STAT News] A new study looking at the distribution of receptors that flu viruses can attach to in different cow tissues may help to explain the pattern of illness being seen in the outbreak of H5N1 bird flu in US dairy cattle — and also is sparking debate about the implications of the cow outbreak for human disease.

[CBC] A new $15-million cross-border research project is underway to monitor the movement of pathogens in Canada and the US in the event of future pandemics.

[Provectus Biopharmaceuticals, Inc.] Provectus Biopharmaceuticals, Inc.announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has allowed patent application 17/232,393, titled “Halogenated Xanthene Composition and Method for Treating Hematologic Cancers”.

[University at Buffalo] Camila Sabatini, associate professor of restorative dentistry in the School of Dental Medicine at the University at Buffalo, has received the Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to study novel therapies to repair damaged teeth.

[Weill Cornell Medicine] Dr. Timothy Ryan, professor of biochemistry in anesthesiology at Weill Cornell Medicine, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors a scientist can receive.