RE: Trump to make an announcement tonight?27 Jul 2020 18:44
23/7/2020
'GAITHERSBURG, Md. and MORRISVILLE, N.C., July 23, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Novavax, Inc. (NASDAQ: NVAX), a late-stage biotechnology company developing next-generation vaccines for serious infectious diseases, and FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies (FDB), a world leading contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) for biologics, viral vaccines and gene therapies, announced today an agreement to manufacture bulk drug substance for NVX-CoV2373, Novavax’ COVID-19 vaccine candidate. FDB’s site in Morrisville, North Carolina has begun production of the first batch of NVX-CoV2373.
This arrangement falls under Novavax’ recent $1.6 billion award by the federal government as part of Operation Warp Speed (OWS), a U.S. government program that aims to begin delivering millions of doses of a safe, effective vaccine for COVID-19 to the U.S. population. '
https://fujifilmdiosynth.com/about-us/news/novavax-and-fujifilm-diosynth-biotechnologies-initiate-large-scale-manufacturing-of-covid-19-vaccine-candidate/