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COVID-19 Crisis: Resources & Information
State Resources
Connecticut is actively implementing programs and initiatives to assist businesses and residents during this difficult period. The state’s coronavirus response team is committed to keeping you up-to-date on the impacts of COVID-19 and how to keep yourself and others safe.
- Reopen CT
- Connecticut’s COVID-19 Website
- Department of Economic & Community Development: Business Recovery Resources
- Department of Economic & Community Development: Recovery Bridge Loan Program
- Small Business Administration: Disaster Relief Loans
- Small Business Administration: Paycheck Protection Program
- Department of Revenue Services: Tax Filing Extensions
- State Insurance Department: IRS Tax Credits
- Department of Labor: Unemployment Insurance
- Department of Labor: Shared Work Program
- Internal Revenue Services: Federal Emergency Paid Leave Program
- Connecticut Manufacturing Innovation Fund Voucher Program (MVP)
Business Resources
Many BioCT members are providing timely information and professional resources to help you assess the impact of COVID-19 on your day-to-day business operations.
- Aon Response Site
- BlumShaprio Resource Center
- CohnReznick Resource Center
- Marcum Resource Center
- PRA Health Sciences Resource Center
- Pullman & Comley Resource Center
- PwC’s COVID Business Center
- Shipman & Goodwin Resource Center
- Taconic Biosciences Toolkit
- Wiggin and Dana Resource Center
- Wilson Sonsini Client Advisory Resource
Donations Needed
These institutions and organizations have set up platforms where companies and individuals can contribute and share urgently needed resources.
• Greater New Haven COVID-19 Community Fund
• Hartford foundation covid-19 response Fund
• CT Responds!
• CT COVID-19 RESPONSE
• BIOTECHNOLOGY INNOVATION ORGANIZATION (BIO)
Industry at Work
Our state and industry colleagues are leading the way and making a difference every day in the fight against COVID-19.
- Isoplexis wins $2M NIH grant Story
- Guilford’s AI Therapeutics gets FDA green light for COVID-19 trial Story
- BMS CEO optimistic re future of medical research Story
- IsoPlexis and Institute for Systems Biology partner to uncover the functional immune mechanisms behind COVID-19 response. Story
- UConn researchers are working on a simple, low-cost CRISPR-based diagnostic test for infectious diseases. Story
- Sema4 to provide viral and antibody testing. Story
- Tangen and LabWare enter into an exclusive partnership. Story
- Rothberg’s Homodeus prepares COVID test. Story
- Forbes article sees Pfizer winning race for vaccine. Story
- BioSig‘s ViralClear to proceed with COVID-19 treatment. Story
- Pfizer leader optimistic about COVID-19 efforts. Story
- Jackson Laboratory to expand COVID-19 testing capability. Story
- NanoViricides collaborating on COVID-19 treatment. Story
- BARDA funds Tangen diagnostic platform. Story
- Pfizer and BioNTech start COVID-19 vaccine trial. Story
- Alexion‘s ULTOMIRIS to be tested against COVID-19. Story
- UConn Health launches program to use plasma from COVID-19 patients. Story
- Yale to launch clinical trial re COVID-19 drug. Story
- Yale commits to COVID-19 licensing principles. Story
- Tangen partners with BARDA re SARS-CoV-2 test. Story
- Alexion to study ULTOMIRIS therapy re COVID-19. Story
- Medtronic provides ventilator progress update. Story
- Pfizer to test COVID-19 drug candidate soon. Story
- CSL Behring wages multifront battle against COVID-19. Story
- Yale at work on face masks, other COVID-19 assets. Story
- Boehringer Ingelheim & Pfizer add donations to fight COVID-19. Story
- Sema4 launches high-capacity COVID-19 testing. Story
- Connecticut working to solve ventilator shortage. Story
- Vanessa Research offers new hand sanitizer. Story
- UConn teams make needed PPE for UConn Health. Story
- Kleo in collaboration re COVID-19 therapy. Story
- UConn researchers working on a simple, low-cost CRISPR-based diagnostic test. Story
- Big Pharma companies join forces for fightback against COVID-19. Story
- Biopharmaceutical innovators leading the charge in the fight against coronavirus. Story
- Pfizer issues a five-point plan calling on the biopharmaceutical industry to join in committing to unprecedented collaboration. Story
- Pfizer teams up with BioNTech to co-develop and distribute a mRNA vaccine against COVID-19 outside of China. Story
- Medtronic plans to increase its production of ventilators in response to demand. Story
- Jackson Laboratory to begin running diagnostic testing for COVID-19. Story
- CaroGen and scientists from Yale working on a vaccine targeting the coronavirus responsible for COVID-19. Story
- UConn collaboration underway for a COVID-19 vaccine. Story
- Jonathan Rothberg and Homodeus on the fast track to develop a low-cost home test for COVID-19. Story
- Bio-Med Devices working overtime, seven days a week, to keep up with the demand for ventilators and air-oxygen blenders. Story
- Taconic Biosciences to support global COVID-19 reserach efforts via a new Coronavirus Toolkit. Story
- NanoViricides makes progress in drug development for the current novel coronavirus SARS-COV-2 that causes COVID-19. Story
- BioSig Technologies announces subsidiary NeuroClear Technologies acquired rights to develop novel pharmaceutical to treat COVID-19. Story