Two hundred kilograms of hydroxychloroquine active ingredient are on their way from Asia to Florence. They will be used to make several hundred thousand capsules of the drug that is now experimentally tested as “anti-navirus”: it inhibits the heaviest...
Two former PhD students of the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Rudy Ippodrino and Bruna Marini, are coordinators of an international collaboration that has led to further discoveries regarding the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The results obtained from the analysis of more than...
In Coronavirus times, the Tuscan university world also made its contribution. The ISIA University Institute of Design in Florence will create visor supports for use in the operating theatres of Tuscan hospitals. How? Thanks to 3D printing. After the test phase by...
Sanofi and GSK have signed a letter of intent to enter into a collaboration to develop an adjuvanted vaccine for COVID-19, using innovative technology from both companies, to help address the ongoing pandemic. Sanofi will contribute its S-protein COVID-19 antigen,...
Kedrion Biopharma, a leading biotech company with strong roots in Tuscany, is working on an anti-Coronavirus therapy that uses plasma from patients cured of Covid-19. We are talking about a probability of effectiveness close to 90 – 95% and only 3 – 6...
How will the current situation affect the economic and financial data for 2020 in my company? How much cash will I be able to count on to meet my commitments? KON Foundation – Business and Financial Advisor and Invest in Tuscany multiplier – has started...
Here comes the system that could solve the problem of the lack of masks in hospitals. #Cisa, a company from Lucca specialized in the production of sterilization units for surgical instruments, invented it. The masks can be reused several times by the same doctors and...
The great fashion brands welcome the call of the Tuscany Region! To make a tangible contribution against the spread of #coronavirus, Gucci, Salvatore Ferragamo, Fendi, Celine, Serapian with leather goods Richemont, Prada, Valentino, Ermanno Scervino have responded to...
Do you know #uffiziDecameron? Is a great initiative, with a hashtag launched by the Uffizi Galleries, which pays great attention to Raffaello’s works in the fifth centenary of the artist’s death. The campaign – playing on temporal parallelism and...
The serological tests that will help to discover the still unknown cases of #Coronavirus are born in #Siena: according to the agreement between the Istituto Spallanzani in Rome and #Diesse – Diagnostica Senese. The tests, currently under development, will be...
