Drug development

European Commission helps raise €7.4B to fund global research on vaccines and treatments for COVID-19, but warns this sum represents only a “great start” to funding needed to deal with the pandemic

Funding vaccine, drug and diagnostic development is the world’s one exit strategy from the pandemic

A €3M EU-funded research project is pulling together a ‘drug box’ from compound libraries around Europe for rapid screening against the crystal structure of the new coronavirus in some Europe’s largest supercomputers

This won’t be the last big global health crisis, warns Pierre Meulien, director of the EU’s Innovative Medicines Initiative

Armed with bear spray, microbiologist Naowarat ‘Ann’ Cheeptham is searching for hardy, less-studied bacteria that could play a role in stemming the antimicrobial resistance crisis

Congresswoman poised to become new House science chair pledges to ‘restore its credibility’

Aim is to embed patient involvement - in setting research priorities, the design of clinical trials and dialogue with regulators and health technology assessment bodies - in health systems design