João Madeira

Questions and answers on the European Biotech Act Why is the Commission proposing a Biotech Act?\nBiotechnology is essential to the EU\'s competitiveness, strategic autonomy and economic security. It is one of the fastest growing innovative industrie...

Biotech Act I marks an important step for EU health biotech, combining faster regulation, targeted funding, and support for high-impact R&D, with proportionate biosecurity safeguards 🧬🇪🇺🛡️

Honoured to have contributed from #HERA

🔗 ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

#BiotechAct #HealthUnion #BioxAi

Europe’s independence moment or the long road to agony? This year’s SOTEU was the perfect opportunity to launch a bold new vision for Europe. Instead, we were offered the status quo with a lick of fresh paint. No political vision, just a shopping list of policies

Europe’s independence moment or the long road to agony?

EU Stockpiling and Medical Countermeasures Strategies to strengthen crisis readiness and health security The European Commission launches today two initiatives under its Preparedness Union agenda: an EU Stockpiling Strategy and a Medical Countermeasures Strategy. Both are designed to improve access to es...

🚨 The @ec.europa.eu has just published its #MCM & #Stockpiling Strategies!

Proud to have contributed. Big step for 🇪🇺 health security, contributing to both EU competitiveness & security.

Aligns with #LifeSciences Strategy and upcoming #BiotechAct & #InnovationAct.

🔗 ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Here Are the Nearly 2,500 Medical Research Grants Canceled or Delayed by Trump (Gift Article) Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.

New powerful article up in the New York Times on cancelled and delayed grants

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The EU is shaping its #LGBTIQ+ Equality Strategy for 2026-2030, aiming to strengthen rights and combat discrimination across Europe 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈

Your voice matters 📢

Join the public consultation to help build a more inclusive future: ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...

#Equality #Inclusion #HaveYourSay #IDAHOT

Have your say on the future of biotech in Europe 🧬🇪🇺

The EU is shaping a new Biotech Act to boost innovation and ensure responsible use of biotechnology.
Public consultation is now open:
ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...

#EUConsultation #Biotech #Innovation #SciencePolicy #HaveYourSay

Today is World Hand Hygiene Day 🖐️🧼

Clean hands are your first line of defense — preventing the spread of bacteria and viruses alike. Protect yourself and others with every wash.

#HandHygiene #InfectionPrevention #StopTheSpread #WorldHandHygieneDay

Charlemagne’s realm is a place of many flaws, lots of them enduring. But in their own plodding way, Europeans have created a place where they are guaranteed rights to what others yearn for: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

📰🔗 www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

Have your say on the future of EU health security 🛡️

The EU is shaping a new Medical Countermeasures Strategy to boost vaccines, diagnostics, PPE & more.

⏰ Help design it — share your views before 9 May!

Speak up here: europa.eu/!C7nKbc

#EUHealth #PreparednessUnion #HealthSecurity #HERA

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two women are sitting on a couch and one of them says just stuff them in yeah ALT: two women are sitting on a couch and one of them says just stuff them in yeah

Me travelling to Asia at 21: I'll just go raw in jeans
Me travelling to Asia at 28: chewing gum, sleep mask, skin cream, lip balm, 10 thousand snacks, earbuds, noise cancelling earbuds, hand wipes, comfy stretch pants...

💉 Proud to announce a new @ec.europa.eu (HaDEA / #HERA) tender for the development next-generation #influenza #vaccines open until 19/5 3pm (Brussels). This tender will be a pre-commercial procurement R&D scheme valued at EUR 225Mio. #HealthUnion

🔗 hadea.ec.europa.eu/news/eu4heal...

Also, loving the journalist that is in the comment section patiently answering and debunking the shitty far-right comments

U.S. to End Vaccine Funds for Poor Countries A 281-page spreadsheet obtained by The Times lists the Trump administration’s plans for thousands of foreign aid programs.

75Mio children will not be vaccinated and an estimate 1.2Mio will die for the US to save 0,0078% of their yearly spending. #heartbreaking 😢💔

U.S. to End Vaccine Funds for Poor Countries www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h...

❓Is anyone on this network aware of clinical trials with Brincidofovir in the EU/Africa (apart from MOSA) or any local stockpile of it? Considering the designation of orphan drug in the EU... If so ➡️ DM

🚨 New EU Tender Alert!

HaDEA & HERA seek rapid PoC devices for AMR detection

🦠 Targets: WHO 2024 priority bacteria, Candida spp., A. fumigatus

📈 TRL 3+→8 | CE pathway

💶 €12.86M | ⏳ 48 months

📅 DDL: 12 May 2025, 4pm CET

🔗 ec.europa.eu/info/funding...

#EU4Health #AMR #Diagnostics #Innovation

📢 HaDEA & #HERA have launched a new EU tender under #EU4Health!

🔬Objective: Strengthen evidence on #Mpox vaccine immunity & optimal booster strategies.
💰 Budget: €4.9M
📅 21 April 2025, 16:00 CET

👉 Details & application: ec.europa.eu/info/funding...

#GlobalHealth #Vaccines #ClinicalResearch

🚨 Dangerous rhetoric from RFK Jr. downplaying measles risks! Measles is NOT a harmless childhood disease - it can cause severe complications and death. #Vaccination saves lives. Spreading misinformation undermines public health. #VaccinesWork #MeaslesPrevention 💉👪

#HERA & #HaDEA thank all the respondents to the survey on the Next-Gen #Influenza Vaccines upcominf call. Tender soon to be published in the F&TS Portal - more info in the link below. #EU #EU4Health #Innovation

🔗 ec.europa.eu/info/funding...

The world should prepare now for a potential H5N1 flu pandemic, experts warn | CEPI The rapid spread and mutation of a deadly bird flu virus in the United States warrants urgent global action, say experts

🚨 Article published in @science.org, co-authored by #CEPI Director, alerts to the rapid spread of deadly H5N1 bird flu & demands urgent 🌍 action! 🦠⚠️ Faster Vx, stronger response plans & better coordination are critical to prevent a pandemic. #H5N1 #PandemicPreparedness

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🦟 #Dengue in Philippines (Quezon) with spike in cases. Travellers to the area should be cautious and apply anti-mosquito spray frequently, avoid water bodies especially at dusk, use bed-nets, and monitor and alert for any symptoms #ProtectYourself #PublicHealth

✨ Guilded Age's back ✨ but only that part in which measles kill a lot of children. Not sure, but looks like they are aiming at 1890's death burden (9250 ppl.)

JD Vance sparks British fury as he mocks Ukraine peacekeeping plan U.S. vice president attacks idea of “some random country that hasn’t fought a war in 30 years” helping Ukraine, though after backlash denies he was referring to France or U.K.

The 457 UK and 90 French soldiers that die in Afghanistan maybe were just there on vacations, and not fighting in that US initiated war. Somebody teach JD how to look for info on Wikipedia, or even his buddy's Grok.

www.politico.eu/article/jd-v...

🚨 Deadline Extended! The @ec.europa.eu is seeking input on its next-gen influenza vaccine tender. Help shape the future on flu prevention and next-gen vaccines! 🦠💉

📝 Survey extended until March 10, EOB

👉 ec.europa.eu/info/funding...

#Influenza #Vaccines #Innovation #EUScience

Como escreveu Henrique Lopes de Mendonça, às armas, às armas!

🚨🚨Powerful response by the EU team by @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu on Trump's drastic decision to pause their military aid commitment to Ukraine. Her press statement is worth reading in full. 🧵 ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

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I cannot, and I repeat - I CANNOT stress how much of a dumb idea this is 🤦! We had exposure to gain immunity approach for some millennia. Basically ppl die. #VaccinesSaveLifes 💉

Parents are holding ‘measles parties’ in the U.S., alarming health experts | Globalnews.ca globalnews.ca/news/1106288...

There will come a day of reckoning with #Orbán.

Question to EU law experts: considering that it is not possible to expel a country, is it possible that the current EU succeeds into a new one by 25 or 26 MS evoking article 50 and creating a new Union with the existing institutions in place?

A tragic, preventable loss - a child has died from measles in the U.S. due to lack of vaccination. Science is clear: measles kills, vaccines save lives.

Yet, the U.S. SoH RFK remains a vaccine skeptic. Public health must be led by facts, not misinformation.

#VaccinesWork #Measles #PublicHealth

What You Need to Know About H5N1 Bird Flu and Everyday Precautions NY Academy of Sciences The highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 virus, commonly known as bird flu, is making headlines and leaving its mark on grocery shelves. Just last week, I visited tw…

🐦🦠 Bird flu #H5N1 is affecting food prices and supply. Egg shortages and soaring prices reflect the virus's spread from poultry to mammals and cattle across the U.S.

🔬 70 human cases have been confirmed, mostly linked to dairy and poultry exposure.

#PublicHealth

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#mpox remains a public health emergency of international concern

The announcement follows the third meeting of the IHR Emergency Committee regarding the upsurge of mpox.

The Director-General concurred with the Committee’s advice.

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