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With our global reach comes a responsibility and unique ability to leverage our deep scientific expertise and extensive partnerships to take on this challenge. Our more than 130,000 employees around the world mobilized with urgency to address the critical needs of families, communities and healthcare providers around the world.
Our commitment to families around the world doesn’t change in a time of crisis: we’ll never stop taking care of you.
U.S. FDA authorizes single-dose Janssen COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use
Emergency Use Listing submitted to the World Health Organization
European Conditional Marketing Authorization Application submitted to the EMA
Application submitted to the U.S. FDA for Emergency Use Authorization
Initiation of ENSEMBLE 2 clinical trial
Initiation of Phase 3 ENSEMBLE clinical trial
Preclinical data published in Nature shows J&J’s investigational SARS-CoV-2 vaccine elicits a strong immune response that protects against subsequent infection.
First-in-human Phase 1/2a clinical trial commenced.
J&J announces acceleration of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate: Phase 1/2a clinical trial to begin in second half of July.
J&J enters into a collaboration with Emergent BioSolutions, Inc., to support the manufacturing of its lead investigational COVID-19 vaccine candidate.
J&J announces a lead vaccine candidate will move into trials and pledges to supply 1B vaccines worldwide for emergency pandemic use. BARDA and J&J commit $1B to vaccine R&D.
J&J and the Johnson & Johnson Foundation announce a $50 million commitment to support frontline health workers battling COVID-19.
WHO declares the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic.
The first case of COVID-19 was reported in South America, marking the spread of the disease to six of seven continents.
Europe has its first major outbreak of COVID-19, in the Lombardy region of northern Italy
J&J announces expanded collaboration with U.S. Department of Health & Human Services to accelerate discovery of potential COVID-19 treatments.
J&J announces collaboration with U.S. Department of Health & Human Services to accelerate development of a potential COVID-19 vaccine.
COVID-19 is announced as the official name of the disease caused by novel coronavirus. The virus is named SARS-CoV-2.
First death linked to 2019-nCoV was reported outside of China, in the Philippines.
WHO declares the 2019-nCoV outbreak a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC).
J&J initiates efforts to develop a vaccine candidate against 2019-nCoV and to broadly collaborate with others to screen a library of antiviral molecules.
First death linked to 2019-nCoV.
WHO announces they have identified a new virus named 2019-nCoV, also known as Wuhan coronavirus. It is from the CoV family, which includes SARS and the common cold.
China alerted the World Health Organization (WHO) to several cases of pneumonia in Wuhan. The virus is unknown.