USA Pfizer has acquired a Brisbane tech startup for a whopping US$179 million after studies showed the software could identify a COVID-19 infection from a person’s cough, in what has…
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Pfizer & CytoReason extend multi-year partnership for AI-driven drug discovery
ISRAEL -CytoReason has extended its multi-year partnership with Pfizer to use CytoReason’s artificial intelligence technology for Pfizer’s drug development programs. According to the deal, Pfizer will invest US$20m in equity,…
Read MorePfizer agrees to supply millions of Paxlovid courses to LMICs through Global Fund
USA – Pfizer has reached an agreement to supply up to six million courses of its COVID-19 antiviral Paxlovid to the Global Fund to get treatment to low and middle-income…
Read More10 African countries selected for new COVID-19 oral treatment Paxlovid pilot program
AFRICA – Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, Ghana, Laos, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda and South Africa have been selected to join the new programme to provide oral antiviral treatment for COVID-19…
Read MorePfizer purchases producer of sickle cell medications Global Blood for US$5.4B
USA- Pfizer has invested US$5.4 billion in the developer of sickle cell medications Global Blood Therapeutics (GBT). The New York-based pharmaceutical and biotechnology corporation aims to speed expansion after seeing…
Read MorePfizer’s India managing director S Sridhar resigns
INDIA- American multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology company, Pfizer has said that its managing director Sridhar, has left the organization. The corporation has stated in a regulatory statement that Sridhar has…
Read MorePfizer targets voluntary Net-Zero Standard compliance by 2040
USA – Pfizer has announced its commitment to further reduce its Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions, aiming to achieve a voluntary net-zero target by 2040, ten years earlier than the expectations…
Read MoreAfrica CDC, Pfizer ink supply pact for COVID-19 pills
AFRICA – The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has entered into a strategic partnership deal with Pfizer Inc., an American multinational pharmaceutical corporation, to ensure uninterrupted…
Read MorePfizer, Roivant spin out new company to advance anti-inflammatory drugs
USA – Pfizer and Roivant Sciences have formed a company to develop anti-inflammatory drugs, announcing that the new biotech, named Priovant Therapeutics, will advance two Pfizer treatments for autoimmune conditions,…
Read MoreEnanta sues Pfizer for Paxlovid-related patent infringement
USA – Enanta has filed suit against Pfizer in district court in Massachusetts, seeking damages for infringement on a patent it originally filed back in July 2020. Specifically, Enanta is…
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