Novel Technologies News for December 2019

Novel Technologies News Archive

EIT Health launches 2020 Wild Card with €4 million investment for innovations addressing Women’s Health and Digital Therapeutics. EIT Health launches 2020 Wild Card with €4 million investment for innovations addressing Women’s Health and Digital Therapeutics.

EIT Health will invest up to €2 million in two start-ups that offer the most effective and disruptive solutions to address either Women’s Health or Digital Therapeutics.Applications for the Wild Card programme are open until 9th February 2020.

Catalent Partners with Bridge Therapeutics on Formulation, Development and Production of New Opioid Addiction Treatment Catalent Partners with Bridge Therapeutics on Formulation, Development and Production of New Opioid Addiction Treatment

Somerset, N.J. & Birmingham, Ala.– December 10, 2019 — Catalent, the leading global provider of advanced delivery technologies, development, and manufacturing solutions for drugs, biologics, gene therapies, and consumer health products, today announced that it has completed clinical production of Bridge Therapeutics Inc.’s (Bridge) opioid addiction development therapeutic product, BT-219, and executed an Exclusive Licensing Agreement to use Catalent’s proprietary Zydis® orally disintegrating tablet (ODT) technology. Bridge currently intends to seek approval from the U.S. FDA for BT-219 under the “505(b)(2)” regulatory submission pathway as well as a possible future single entity buprenorphine product.

NTU scientists uncover structure of key pneumonia virus enzyme, suggesting a route for new antiviral treatments

A team of molecular and structural biologists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have found a potential new route to disabling respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and human metapneumovirus (HMPV) after elucidating the structure of one of its key components.