The Victorian government committed $50 million on Wednesday towards a plan for manufacturing mRNA coronavirus vaccines,Credit:The project, which will be a partnership with Monash University, Melbourne University and the Doherty Institute, would launch a local manufacturing facility focused on mRNA vaccines.could allow Australia to make Pfizer’s vaccine under licence.
While new manufacturing options could be considered in future, the company’s current focus was on making the more than 2 billion doses it plans to deliver throughout 2021, the company said. Pfizer and its partner BioNTech use components from more than 30 sites across the globe to make its vaccine, which would mean specific technologies would have to be imported if Australia was ever to make doses here.Industry insiders familiar with mRNA production said Australia would also have to prepare to negotiate licensing agreements with Pfizer for its intellectual property.
Glaven1994 Yep it was never going to be something that could be done quickly but hope that they still pursue setting up development of mRNA manufacturing here. It looks like the future for so many medications.
Is it how 5 eyes are trusting, working together and helping each other? It looks Australia economic interests have suffered by cutting relationships with China and U.S. has profited by exporting more to China.
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