[quick news] Thursday, March 1, 2018

Japan has approved a new drug that can kill influenza virus in one day At the time of the most serious influenza outbreak in recent ten years, a breakthrough new drug that is expected to kill influenza virus in one day has been approved by Japan drug administration Recently, Japan's drug administration accelerated the approval of the listing of xofloza from Shionogi pharmaceutical company It will become a major competitor to Tamiflu, an antiviral drug of Roche's, a pharmaceutical giant But xofloza will not be available in the US until at least 2019 Fortune http://fortune.com/2018/02/23/japan-shionogi-flu-drug-kills-virus-one-day/ NSF will close its overseas offices When NSF plans to close its overseas offices for the first time in the business edition of the US science website, the news caused mixed reviews in the scientific community Recently, NSF announced that it will close its sites in Beijing, Belgium, Brussels and Tokyo this summer; two of its U.S staff will return to the agency's headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia, and local staff will be assigned to the U.S embassy Science http:// shire rare edematous drugs enter the FDA priority review process According to pharmatimes recently, US regulatory agencies are conducting accelerated review of shire's drug lanadelumab (shp643), which is used for prevention 12 Patients aged and over with hereditary angioedema (HAE) Shire supports the application submitted by lanadelumab with data from four clinical trials The U.S Food and drug administration has approved the application for priority review, indicating that the drug has the potential to provide significant treatment benefits to patients Pharmatimes http:// Jiaotong University Professor Huang Zuohua was elected as a member of the international combustion society Recently, the combustion Institute announced the first international combustion society Huang Zuohua, Professor of State Key Laboratory of multiphase flow of Xi'an Jiaotong University, was elected The international combustion society awarded its members for his outstanding research on premixed flame, engine combustion technology progress, especially hydrogen rich combustion Http://news.xjtu.edu.cn/info/1004/87733.htm the fifth Sino German innovation conference was held in Beijing on February 27-28 The Ministry of science and technology and the Federal Ministry of teaching and research of Germany jointly held the fifth Sino German Innovation Conference in Beijing The premier of the State Council sent a congratulatory letter to the conference Wan Gang, Minister of the Ministry of science and technology, read out the congratulatory letter of the premier at the conference and gave keynote speeches respectively with Xu te, State Secretary of the German Federal Ministry of education and research More than 300 representatives from all walks of life from science and technology, enterprises and governments of the two countries attended the conference China Economic Net https://