Easing PPE demands | Vaccines and kids | Antiviral therapeutics

“The art of life is a constant readjustment to our surroundings." — Okakura Kakuzō, Japanese scholar

Today’s issue:

• Easing PPE demands
  
• Double lung transplant on COVID patient
  
• Vaccines and kids
  
• Sanitizing vending machines
• COVID-19 innovation
  
• Antiviral therapeutics
• PUDDLE HOPS: Health tech

April 14, 2021

NAVIGATING THE RECOVERY

PANDEMIC INNOVATION

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Easing PPE demands

National Personal Protective Technology Laboratory in Pittsburgh--which has been developing a new kind of respirator that would ease demand for N95s masks during the pandemic--has received a $14 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health.

Double lung transplant on COVID patient

In December, surgeons at OSU’s Wexner Medical Center Comprehensive Transplant Center successfully performed a lifesaving double lung transplant on a patient who recovered from COVID-19. Since then, they have performed three more lung transplants.

Vaccines and kids

Cincinnati Children’s is now testing Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine in children between the ages of five and 11, with a focus currently on getting the dosage right.

Sanitizing vending machines

An Iowa company has developed new sanitation tech: UV vending machines. The machines use UV rays but include safeguards such as a shielding that directs radiation to target surfaces and a shut off mechanism for when a consumer approaches the machine.

COVID-19 innovation

Minneapolis-based Bio-Techne Corporation today announced that its R&D Systems and Novus brands have been named winners of the CiteAb COVID-19 Innovation Award for its products that helped shape the life sciences sectors understanding of, or resilience to, COVID-19.

Antiviral therapeutics

Phytoption LLC, a startup in the Purdue Research Park, is looking for partners to help advance the development of antiviral therapeutics it says could fight against COVID-19 and other viral diseases.

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PUDDLE HOPS: HEALTH TECH

Fast Future has followed medical and tech news around COVID-19 from the beginning of the pandemic. We're adding coverage to this report related to health care innovation to feature more advances across Fast Future Country. 

• Orthopedic companies in Fast Future Country, like Stryker and Zimmer Biomet, are exploring how utilizing data can improve procedures and patient outcomes. The data is collected before and after operations, as well as collected by robots during surgery.

• A study from Washington University in St. Louis suggests that giving chemotherapy treatments in the morning rather than the evening could add to survival time for patients with an aggressive type of brain cancer.

• The Cleveland Clinic will be the first U.S. site for IBM’s “Quantum Computer.” Quantum computing will be the main component of the Global Center for Pathogen Research & Human Health.

• Biologists at the University of Louisville have found a way to make cell cultures respond more closely to normal cells, allowing drugs to be screened for toxicity earlier in the research timeline.

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