Serum Institute CEO Adar Poonawalla makes the announcement after a meeting with PM Narendra Modi, who was visiting key vaccine sites in India
The company is the world's largest vaccine manufacturer.
Sources said the UK partner, AstraZeneca, would also submit the current data set to the regulator as planned, and provide additional test results, if sought
Known for cranking out low-price vaccines, Serum Institute comes riding on the promise of a billion Covid shots
Russia's sovereign wealth fund and Indian pharmaceutical company Hetero have agreed to produce over 100 million doses per year of Russia's Covid vaccine Sputnik V, in India
SII is unlikely to announce any interim data from the trials here. It will wait to compile and analyse data, before sharing it with the Indian regulator.
Rao had also informed that ambassadors and envoys from 100 countries will visit the Serum Institute of India and the Gennova Biopharmaceuticals Ltd here on December 4
Serum Institute has partnered with global pharma giant AstraZeneca and the Oxford University
Visit of the ambassadors was to take place on November 27, but it has now been rescheduled to December 4
Poonawalla said the company will be able to produce 400 million doses of AstraZeneca's vaccine by July 2021 and scale up further from there
If the initiative, aided by Mr. Gates's fortune and focus, manages to help protect the world's poor from a virus it will affirm the strategies he has promoted in his philanthropic work
Serum Institute of India (SII) CEO Adar Poonawalla on Monday expressed happiness at pharma major AstraZeneca's announcement that its COVID-19 vaccine candidate has been found to be 70 per cent effective on average. AstraZeneca said one dosing regimen showed vaccine efficacy of 90 per cent when the vaccine was given as a half-dose followed by a full dose at least one month apart, while another dosing regimen showed 62 per cent efficacy when given as two full doses at least one month apart. "The combined analysis from both dosing regimens resulted in an average efficacy of 70 per cent," it added. In a tweet, Poonawalla said, "I am delighted to hear that, Covishield, a low-cost, logistically manageable & soon to be widely available, #COVID19 vaccine, will offer protection up to 90% in one type of dosage regime and 62% in the other dosage regime...". SII is currently conducting clinical trials of Oxford University-AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine candidate in India. AstraZeneca also ...
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ICMR and SII have further collaborated for the clinical development of COVOVAX (Novavax) developed by Novavax, USA and upscaled by SII
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Suresh Jadhav, executive director of the Serum Institute of India (SII), said the biotechnology company has already put in place an expansion plan for new products in the pipeline
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BENGALURU (Reuters) - Serum Institute of India said on Tuesday it would get a further $150 million in funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the GAVI vaccines alliance to make an additional 100 million COVID-19 vaccine doses for India and other low- and middle-income countries next year.