The ICGEB is providing links and publishing updates from its network in Member States on the Covid-19/SARS-CoV-2 actions being undertaken across the globe on this page for reference.
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Covid19
Indo-Italian Cooperation for COVID19 – Webinar – 14 July 2020
Organised on behalf of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Italian Ambassador to India, Vincenzo de Luca, and the Ambassador of India to Italy, Reenat Sandhu, the Webinar on Strategic Cooperation on COVID19 and Bilateral Funding Opportunities will take place on 14 July 2020.
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Science, Technology and Innovation for the SDGs and recovery from Covid-19
Dr. Alessandro Marcello presented the latest research and developments from Covid-19 research at ICGEB at the UN DESA / DSDG Webinar on 10 June 2020.
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ICGEB with Sun Pharma: Phase-II clinical trial on AQCH for treatment of COVID-19 patients
Studies conducted in collaboration with ICGEB, Italy prove instrumental in initiating Phase II clinical trial on AQCH, a phytopharmaceutical drug, as potential treatment for COVID-19 patients.
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ICGEB with CNR-IBF against COVID-19: the FARMACOVID project
COVID-19 caught researchers short. Its rampant spread left no time to target studies through rational drug design approaches. The National Research Council, the largest public research institution in Italy has joined forces with the Molecular Virology lab in Trieste, to search for a drug able to eliminate Coronavirus: this is the FARMACOVID project.
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COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 Updates from ICGEB New Delhi and Cape Town
Recent studies at ICGEB New Delhi in the battle against Covid19 are leading to further exploration of experimental validation and therapeutic possibilities and have been submitted for funding to BIRAC under a call to fight the pandemic.
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UNIBE and ICGEB sign Agreement to Conduct COVID-19 Research
The ICGEB has signed a cooperation agreement with the Universidad Iberoamericana (UNIBE) of the Dominican Republic to promote bilateral collaboration.
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ICGEB China partners donate Covid19 detection testing kits
In another significant gesture of solidarity and partnership, ICGEB has received 1000 Real-time fluorescent RT-PCR kits for detecting Covid19 in donation from its collaborating institutes in China.
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Covid19 Research – updates from India
“Despite the high population density, India has one of the lowest infection and death rates of Covid19 cases.”
Updates from Dinakar Salunke, Director, ICGEB New Delhi
ICGEB Activities in the Covid19 Crisis
Last December, no one thought that Covid19 would be a major global crisis. By late January however, the picture was beginning to change and ICGEB scientists had the foresight to recognise the danger looming and began to prepare for research on coronaviruses. Whilst research labs all over the world are in lockdown, ICGEB research activities related to Covid19 remain active.
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ICGEB and UNOSSC unite for scientific cooperation across the life sciences
Joint Editorial by Lawrence Banks, Director-General of the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB); and Jorge Chediek, Director of the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC), and Envoy of the UN Secretary-General on South-South Cooperation.
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Chinese partners donate 20,000 protective face masks
At the end of April 2020, ICGEB received a consignment of protective masks from its Chinese partners in Beijing and Taizhou, for distribution via the local health authorities in Trieste.
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