What is a human challenge study? In a human challenge study, healthy volunteers are intentionally infected with a virus/bacteria or parasite in a quarantine facility. The volunteers are monitored under 24/7 supervision
As a medicinal expert at one of the leading notified bodies of the EU, I’ve been involved in the assessment of medicinal files of many different device-drug combination products. These
What can deliberately infecting healthy people tell us about infectious diseases? How is this useful for developing treatments, and how do we manage the risks? hVIVO plc (formerly Open Orphan plc)
The European Mediscience Awards is now in its 21st year, having been held every year since inception in 2002. The event is the largest annual gathering of private and publicly quoted
Committee (HREC) to initiate a Phase I trial of CDI-988 for the treatment of Covid-19. CDI-988 is an oral, broad-spectrum 3CL protease inhibitor designed using Cocrystal’s proprietary drug discovery platform technology. The
Introducing Dr Catchpole As Chief Scientific Officer, Dr Catchpole has “overall responsibility for the scientific conduct” of hVIVO’s studies and laboratory services, and oversees the manufacturing of their challenge viruses.
hVIVO plc (formerly Open Orphan plc) is a rapidly growing specialist contract research organisation (CRO) and the world leader in testing infectious and respiratory disease vaccines and antivirals using human challenge
IntroductionA small sized pharmaceutical company, who had already performed proof-of-concept studies with a small molecule drug candidate came to Venn Life Sciences with the aim to bring their product into
Pharmaceutical services firm Hvivo, formerly Open Orphan, will pay a dividend to shareholders after a “record financial and operational performance” last year. The Dublin and London-listed organisation is set to
Bruno Speder, VP of regulatory affairs & consultancy services, hVIVO, discusses how Human Challenge Trials (HCT) can be used in the framework of expedited review programs as part of drug and
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