CANTON – MMS, a contract biotech research organization, is offering a $1 million award toward the development of a vaccine for COVID-19, also known as the coronavirus. The award is being offered as data and related services to qualified pharmaceutical and clinical research companies supporting the commercial development of a vaccine for approval in the
LANSING - Michigan public health officials on Saturday reported a fifth death of a resident with the coronavirus, with 238 positive tests statewide. Detroit alone reported 99 new cases, bringing the city’s total to 248, nearly a third of the state's 787 total infections. Four of the deaths were in Wayne County, with three in Detroit. The fifth
LANSING - Patrick Anderson, CEO of the Lansing-based Anderson Economic Group, which provides economic analysis for private companies, nonprofits and governments, predicts as many as 1.4 million of the state’s 4.7 million workers will be displaced in the next 45 days. “We have to deal with the huge number of Michigan residents who will be
LANSING - The Michigan Marijuana Regulatory Agency on Monday issued Emergency Rules in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic that lets licensed provisioning center and adult-use retailer to provide home delivery services through online sales. However, the MRA must approve the delivery procedure used by the designated licensed facility or adult-use establishment. The bulletin that
ANN ARBOR - As I write this (March 11), 1269 cases and 37 deaths have occurred due to COVID-19 in the US. It may seem to the uninitiated that we are over-reacting to the threat. We are not. I managed the development of the first test for HIV, the development and manufacture of six vaccines
DETROIT - As coronavirus fears hit a high point, companies have scrambled to institute new work from home policies. And those policies could become permanent in some cases, substantially altering our work- and life-style landscape in ways none of us would have predicted just a few weeks ago. When it comes to working from home,
WASHINGTON D.C. – The National Association of Manufacturers released a survey that recommended key policy areas where legislative and administration action would help combat COVID-19 and future public health emergencies successfully. Survey highlights include the following: • 78.3% of manufacturers anticipate a financial impact • 53.1% of manufacturers anticipate a change in operations • 35.5%
ANN ARBOR - In light of the news surrounding COVID-19, Charles Strackbein, founder of the Monroe Street Fair, has taken proactive moves to help protect his participants and the greater overall interests of public health, safety and welfare, by postponing the Ann Arbor Monroe Street Fair to the fall. “We are optimistically rescheduling the fair
