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Cook Medical wins DOD contract for drug-eluting stents

April 11, 2024 By Sean Whooley

Cook Medical Zilver PTX

Cook Medical announced today that the U.S. Dept. of Defense (DOD) awarded it an ECAT contract for implantable medical devices. The contract includes implantable vascular medical devices like the Zilver PTX drug-eluting peripheral stent. It also applies to the Zenith aortic endografts and associated interventional devices for treating vascular disease. Cook Medical said in a […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Drug-Device Combinations, Featured, Stents Tagged With: cook medical, U.S. Defense Dept.

Baxter lands major DoD contract

November 13, 2020 By Sean Whooley

Bax

The U.S. Defense Dept. (DoD) announced that it awarded Baxter (NYSE:BAX) $40 million for its infusion pumps and accessories. Baxter’s contract includes a maximum $40 million fixed-price award with economic-price-adjustment and indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity for its infusion pumps and accessories. The competitive acquisition had 105 offers received. The five-year contract has no option periods with the location being […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Contract Services, Drug-Device Combinations, Featured, Funding Roundup Tagged With: Baxter, U.S. Defense Dept.

Inovio to scale up production of smart delivery device for potential COVID-19 vaccine

July 24, 2020 By Sean Whooley

Inovio Pharma

Inovio Pharmaceuticals (NSDQ:INO) announced that it received $71 million from the U.S. Defense Dept. to support its Cellectra 3PSP smart device. Funding from the DoD is set to support large-scale manufacturing for the Cellectra 3PSP and the procurement of Cellectra 2000 devices, which are used to deliver Inovio’s INO-4800 COVID-19 vaccine candidate directly into the skin. […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Clinical Trials, Drug-Device Combinations, Featured, Funding Roundup, Immunotherapy Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, Inovio Pharmaceuticals, U.S. Defense Dept.

HHS spending $347m to boost supply of COVID-19 vaccine, treatment vials

June 18, 2020 By Sean Whooley

The U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services (HHS) and Dept. of Defense (DoD) announced a joint effort to increase manufacturing for vials earmarked for COVID-19-related drugs and vaccines. The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), as part of HHS, collaborated with DoD to provide funding for U.S.-based companies Corning Inc. and SiO2 Materials […]

Filed Under: Contract Services, Discovery, Drug-Device Combinations, Featured, Pharmaceuticals Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, U.S. Defense Dept., U.S. Department of Health & Human Services

MeMed wins $9.2m DoD deal for diagnostic device

April 19, 2017 By Sarah Faulkner

MeMed's 2nd generation diagnostic device

MeMed said today that it won a $9.2 million contract from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, a branch of the U.S. Dept. of Defense, for its diagnostic platform that distinguishes bacterial infections from viral infections. The Israel-based company has developed a test to recognize the distinct human immune signatures of both bacterial and viral infections […]

Filed Under: Diagnostics, Featured, Funding Roundup Tagged With: memed, U.S. Defense Dept.

EpiPen price hike cost Pentagon millions

October 31, 2016 By Sarah Faulkner

Mylan

Mylan Pharmaceuticals‘ (NSDQ:MYL) 500% price increase on its epinephrine auto-injector cost the U.S Defense Dept. millions, according to data provided to Reuters.  The Pentagon spent $57 million on Mylan’s EpiPen last year, up from $9 million in 2008, largely driven by volume and price hikes that affected prescriptions filled at retail pharmacies. Although the Pentagon gets a government discount […]

Filed Under: Drug-Device Combinations, Featured Tagged With: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Mylan, U.S. Defense Dept.

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