RE: Huge20 May 2020 10:04
With the prospect of a COVID-19 vaccine nearing, the industry is rapidly shifting its focus to manufacturing capacity and ensuring the vaccine can be produced at scale, fast and safely.
Many companies developing COVID-19 vaccines are using viral vectors such as lentivirus to ensure effective delivery of the vaccine. Production of the lentivirus can be a cumbersome and challenging process and any improvement to that process could result in more vaccines being available faster. In recent research conducted by the Company, N4 Pharma's silica nanoparticle system Nuvec® has been shown to offer an improvement over the current process by being able to bind all three plasmids normally used to produce the virus. This enhances productivity while using less plasmid, as any cell being transfected with Nuvec® will take up all three plasmids necessary for viral production.