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Research Roundup: Preterm birth indicators, African sleeping sickness...
Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) received a grant from the Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth, a member of the GHTC, to study the human microbiome in search of biomarkers to...
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Research Roundup: flesh-eating bacteria treatment, Hepatitis C in Egypt, and...
Photo: Neil Brandvold/DNDi Global Health Now took an in-depth look at the flesh-eating fungus mycetoma—which enters the body through cuts, and can result in swollen, deformed limbs—in a three-part...
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Global Health Innovation Act has passed the House of Representatives
Photo: PATH/Patrick McKern Update: The Global Health Technologies Coalition is excited to announce that the Global Health Innovation Act (H.R. 2241) passed the House of Representatives on December 18....
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365 review: Top global health innovation news of 2015
As 2015 draws to a close, the Global Health Technologies Coalition is reflecting on the past year in global health innovation. Below, in no particular order, are our picks for the top global health...
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Research Roundup: MERS vaccine for camels, lessons learned from Ebola R&D,...
Photo: Getty Images A new vaccine against Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) could save human lives by boosting immunity in camels. MERS, a virus that causes an innocuous cold in camels but kills...
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Research Roundup: Ebola treatments, drug-resistant gonorrhea, and zoonotic...
An Ebola survivor donates blood plasma. (Photo: Antwerp Institute of Tropical Medicine) A recent clinical trial found that convalescent plasma therapy, a treatment in which the blood plasma is taken...
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Research Roundup: Vaccines for cholera and river blindness and an online...
Last week, an oral cholera vaccine received World Health Organization (WHO) prequalification, a process of regulatory review which paves the way for procurement by United Nations agencies and...
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WHO’s Doing What?
With the New Year underway, GHTC is looking forward to a busy spring of multilateral organization meetings—with a number of them impacting global health research and development (R&D). First on the...
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Research Roundup: an Ebola vaccine, stillbirths, and antimicrobial R&D
Ebola vaccine clinical trial (Photo: The Standard Tribune) Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, signed an advanced purchase commitment, pledging to spend US$5 million on an Ebola vaccine currently under...
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Major R&D gaps exist for eight pathogens most likely to cause next epidemic
Photo: PATH/Mike Wang Last month, the World Health Organization (WHO) convened experts to determine which emerging diseases could become “the next Ebola”—those pathogens most likely to cause the next...
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Setting the stage: UN High-Level Panel on Access to Medicines to consider IP,...
A close-up of packets of pills. (Photo: PATH/Christopher Nelson) In November 2015, United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon convened a High-Level Panel on Access to Medicines to discuss and...
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Research Roundup: Zika edition
Photo: CDC Vaccines The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) is ramping up research for a vaccine against Zika, a mosquito-borne virus which is “spreading explosively” throughout the Americas and can...
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Research Roundup: Drones to bolster supply chains, a mobile vaccine...
To bypass unreliable roads, a project funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the United Nations Population Fund is using drones to deliver contraceptives, condoms, and other health...
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Research Roundup: Thermal blankets for preemies, remote critical care, and...
Seated woman holding baby bundled in a blanket East London, Tutura Clinic, Sep 29, 2009 (Photo: PATH/Wendy Stone) Many of the 15 million babies born premature each year struggle with hypothermia and...
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Research Roundup: Vaccines for Rift Valley Fever, MERS, and Zika
A vaccine candidate against Rift Valley Fever appears to be safe and effective for livestock and has the potential for use in humans. Rift Valley Fever—which was recently identified by the World Health...
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Research Roundup: A vaginal ring to prevent HIV, antibodies against Ebola,...
The dapivirine ring (Photo: International Partnership for Microbicides) GHTC member the International Partnership for Microbicides (IPM) announced last week the results of two phase 3 clinical trials...
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Research Roundup: A novel single-pill HIV treatment, a promising Ebola...
Photo: PATH/Map Photo Agency Gilead Sciences, a California-based biopharmaceutical company, has received US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for Odefsey®, a complete, single-pill regimen for...
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Innovative health tools put the power of protection in women’s hands
The Women’s Condom. Photo: PATH/Glenn Austin This International Women’s Day, GHTC is celebrating two novel, female-initiated health technologies that have the potential to give women and girls greater...
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Research Roundup: antibiotic resistance in preemies, a low-cost TB test, and...
A new study out of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, revealed a proliferation of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the gastrointestinal tracts of premature infants....
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Research Roundup: cash prizes for R&D, genetically modified mosquitoes, and...
US Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) released a plan last week as part of his Democratic presidential bid to incentivize research and development (R&D) for new HIV/AIDS medicines while ensuring they...
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