Technology developed at LSU Health Shreveport played key role in COVID-19 vaccine development The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was partly developed through technologies created at LSU Health Shreveport. (Source: KSLA) By Christian Piekos | December 16, 2020 at 9:38 AM CST - Updated December 16 at 6:13 PM SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) - As the first doses of the historic Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine are administered to critical frontline healthcare workers across the country â the development of the vaccine has a direct connection to LSU Health Sciences Center. The vaccine uses messenger R...