A new initiative announced by the National Institutes of Health (HNIH), backed by a $1.5 billion investment from federal stimulus funding, aims to speed innovation, development, and commercialization of COVID-19 testing technologies. Dubbed the Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) initiative the new program will infuse funding into early innovative technologies to speed development of rapid and widely accessible COVID-19 testing.

RI Bio Teams Up with Venture Café to Celebrate Life Sciences
PROVIDENCE, RI–April 26, 2022–RI Bio, Southeastern New England’s life sciences trade group, announced their slate of NEXT WAVE events with Venture Café Providence every Thursday in May that celebrates the life sciences. “The pandemic put advances in life sciences and...