On St Patrick’s Day 2021, the annual Craic 10K will go global from Belfast! The Irish Chamber’s Business Manager, Alanna Barry McCloskey, will be Philadelphia’s ambassador. Join her in running and representing the Greater Philadelphia region!

Wednesday the 17th of March, will mark the seventh annual outing for this celebratory run which kicks off the National Saint’s Day with a health-boosting, family-orientated, civic-minded event capturing the very best of our Irish values. Read More

Irish pharma group ICON plc carried out trial of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine
The Irish Times

The trial, involving 44,000 participants, was largest trial of a Covid-19 vaccine

Irish clinical trials group Icon has revealed that it carried out the late-stage trial of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine.

The trial, which involved 44,000 participants over a four-month period last year, was the largest trial of a Covid-19 vaccine.

Pfizer and BioNTech were the first to announce positive efficacy results from a late-stage study, and the first to receive authorisation for deployment.

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