Akron Children’s Hospital will require its employees to get a COVID-19 vaccine; a crowd gathered outside of Summa Health’s Akron campus Monday night to protest the hospital’s vaccine requirement; the Cuyahoga County Commons Pleas Court's General Division employees are required to get the COVID-19 vaccine by Oct. 15; and more stories.
Developing Covid-19 vaccines in less than a year came from repurposing multiple, decade-old vaccine research platforms, but too many lives were lost, and a new goal of developing vaccines in 100 days is needed to counter the next global pathogen.
This is according to Dr Nicole Lurie, a Strategic Advisor to the UK-based Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), and an advisor to the World Bank and the World Health Organization, (WHO).
She was addressing a virtual global forum on tuberculosis (TB) vaccines on Thursday, 22 April, in a session on how to use lessons from Covid-19 to accelerate responses to the TB burden and antimicrobial resistance worldwide.
Developing Covid-19 vaccines in less than a year came from repurposing multiple, decade-old vaccine research platforms, but too many lives were lost, and a new goal of developing vaccines in 100 days is needed to counter the next global pathogen.
This is according to Dr Nicole Lurie, a Strategic Advisor to the UK-based Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), and an advisor to the World Bank and the World Health Organization, (WHO).
She was addressing a virtual global forum on tuberculosis (TB) vaccines on Thursday, 22 April, in a session on how to use lessons from Covid-19 to accelerate responses to the TB burden and antimicrobial resistance worldwide.
Cleveland Clinic, IBM partner; accelerating discovery in healthcare, life sciences April 5, 2021
IBM have announced a planned 10-year partnership to establish the Discovery Accelerator, a joint Cleveland Clinic – IBM center with the mission of fundamentally advancing the pace of discovery in healthcare and life sciences through the use of high-performance computing on the hybrid cloud, artificial intelligence (AI), and quantum computing technologies.
The collaboration is anticipated to build a robust research and clinical infrastructure to empower big data medical research in ethical, privacy preserving ways, discoveries for patient care and novel approaches to public health threats such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Through the Discovery Accelerator, the researchers plan to use advanced computational technology to generate and analyze data to help enhance research in the new
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Cleveland Clinic announced they have launched a 10-year partnership aimed at leveraging advanced computing technology for drug development and more, in today s bite-sized hospital and health industry news from Massachusetts, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.
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Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has named Emme Handy as senior adviser to the COO. Handy previously worked as senior director and director of financial planning at the Broad Institute for three years before serving as CFO for the city of Boston starting in January 2018 (Dumcius,