Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati transferred a pioneering vaccine technology to BioMed Pvt. Ltd. for a recombinant vector vaccine combating classical swine fever in pigs and wild boars, with research findings published in prestigious journals.
As posted Monday, BIO (the Biotechnology Innovation Organization) provided a link to the supposed compromise agreement reached recently to permit WTO member states to waive patent...
Pfizer and BioNTech Agree to Vaccine Technology Transfer with South Africa's Biovac Institute
As reported by Reuters* on Wednesday (
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As described by the Reuters article, Biovac Institute is "a joint venture between the South African government and private sector partners"; it has an advantage as being the first company in Africa to use mRNA technology to make the vaccine. The scope of the cooperative agreement is limited to "fill and finish" aspects of the vaccine, leaving Pfizer and BioNTech to produce the mRNA components of the vaccine in Europe (for a more detailed description of the vaccine making process,