The heir to a purebred dog dynasty in India is likely to be the key to bringing the world a COVID-19 cure – with its fax manufacturing company scaled up to help produce more than a billion doses of each effective candidate.
Adar Poonawalla, CEO of the Serum Institute of India, the largest vaccine maker in the world, said his company can produce about 1.5 billion doses a year from almost every inoculation, Bloomberg reported.
“People today are really envious of why we are the only ones who can make COVID-19 on this scale, and that’s because I had the vision, and we put all the money into it, to just build,” he said. of outlet.
Poonawalla is part of a family that became the most successful breeder of racehorses.
But his father, Cyrus Poonawalla, began using the horses to harvest snakebite anti-venom and tetanus antitoxin, which tetanus prevents in animals, Bloomberg reported.
By setting up the Serum Institute, Cyrus began importing production materials to cut out faxes, according to the report.
Adar joined the company in 2001, and now sells the vaccine maker to 140 countries, the outlet reported.
The institute is one of several manufacturers tapped by pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca to produce the COVID-19 vaccine in development at the University of Oxford.
They have also received $ 150 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Alliance for GAVI Faxes to create 100 million COVID-19 vaccine doses for India and other emerging economies.
Adar claimed that because of the size of the company, they should be part of the global production plan of one of the more than 100 vaccine candidates in development.
‘I see no choice. They will have to come here, ‘he told the financial outlet.
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