NIH to launch public-private partnership to speed COVID-19 vaccine and treatment options | National Institutes of Health (NIH)

NIH to launch public-private partnership to speed COVID-19 vaccine and treatment options | National Institutes of Health (NIH)

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NIH to launch public-private partnership to speed COVID-19 vaccine and treatment options Health agencies, leading pharmaceutical companies to join forces to accelerate pandemic response. The National Institutes of Health and the Foundation for the NIH (FNIH) are bringing together more than a dozen leading biopharmaceutical companies, the Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the European Medicines Agency to develop an international strategy for a coordinated research response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The planned Accelerating COVID-19 Therapeutic Interventions and Vaccines (ACTIV) partnership will develop a collaborative framework for prioritizing vaccine and drug candidates, streamlining clinical trials, coordinating regulatory processes and/or leveraging assets among all partners to rapidly respond to the COVID-19 and future pandemics. This is part of the whole-of-government, whole-of-America response the Administration has led to beat COVID-19.