MEMBER HIGHLIGHT

COVID-19 and More: Global Health Problem Solvers Headquartered in Missouri

As leaders in biosafety with pandemic preparedness and infectious disease, Kansas City-based MRIGlobal is engaged in the study of SARS-CoV-2 corona virus/COVID-19 corona virus and its transmission. https://www.mriglobal.org/expertise-posts/global-health-surveillance/

Founded in 1944, MRIGlobal conducts applied scientific and engineering research in defense, health, and energy. Their work impacts the health and safety of millions of people around the world each year. MRIGlobal has a reputation for expertise in infectious disease, supporting global clients to predict, prevent, and control outbreaks such as Ebola and other coronaviruses like SARS and MERS. It’s not surprising MRIGlobal is implementing programs for commercial and government stakeholders in the recent pandemic.

Here are few areas MRIGlobal is fast at work in today’s health crisis:

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MOBIO - COVID-19

MOBIO members contribute in big ways to shorten this crisis.

Please share with us, by a short note, what your company or institution is doing to make a difference.  As policymakers ask, we want to further explain why solid science matters.  We have seen impressive coverage of: 

• 'It's one small piece': Area companies develop open-source design for medical face shields, donate 10,000 to KU Health

• Area biotech works on treatment for lungs of COVID-19 patients 

• MRIGlobal follows up flyable medical 'fortress' with two new mobile labs that could help with coronavirus response

• J&J picks top coronavirus vaccine candidate; human test to start in September

• CORTEX featured in Brookings Report - The crucial role ‘innovation districts’ will play in the fight against COVID-19

• Wash U gets FDA clearance to test a century-old idea on  critical COVI-19 patients

• JVIC teams up with CoxHealth.  The two entities work together to prototype a PPE.

• Merck donations 500k PPE masks to support coronavirus response in NYC

• CRB - Managing supply chain disruptions in the pharmaceutical industry

• CSL offers COVID-19 assist

• Bayer donates three million tablets of Chloroquine to help in COVID-19 fight

• MRIGlobal's biocontainment units evacuating patients; 

• InnovaPrep's work in detecting viruses for over a decade, especially in aerosol transmission of COVID-19, is leading to a surge in sales from Drexel, MO to Asia;

• Washington University School of Medicine's hiring of noted virologist Sean Whelan, Ph.D. as head of the Department of Molecular Microbiology  

• FDA's 4th diagnostic Emergency Use Authorization issued to Thermo Fisher Scientific for the TaqPath #COVID19 Combo Kit within 24 hours of FDA receiving the request.

• Viracor EuroFins in Lee's Summit has received the green light from the FDA to begin testing for COVID-19 and can process a thousand samples a day.

• Roche gained another FDA approval for testing, increasing speed by a factor of 10.

Additional COVID-19 resources are available from the World Health Organization  and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control .

BIO launched the new Coronavirus Hub connecting companies that have relevant supplies, capacities, and resources to share, with those companies, researchers, or healthcare providers that need them. The portal connects in real-time.  Connections for medical supplies will be facilitated in partnership with Healthcare Ready to ensure an organized allocation of items in need, and thus will not be publicly available or searchable. 

Importantly, information for all life sciences companies can be found in the BIO Business Resource Center .