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Until winter. This is an ambitious goal set by scientists to defeat Covid-19.

Regulators, scientists, and life sciences companies are working at breakthrough speeds to become the largest and fastest vaccine/drug hunt in human history.

Biotechnology specialists use all available platforms or vehicles (dead, artificially engineered live virus) to kill antigens that kill viruses, except for DNA-based or RNA-based viruses. Transporting to cells. Large pharmaceutical companies such as Pfizer, Novartis and GlaxoSmithKline are working together. They also opened a patented library of drug knowledge to researchers and academia. Governments and philanthropists are spending billions on promising projects. Scientists are trying hundreds of treatment options, ranging from novel plasma and antigen injections, to Made in India’s antimalarial hydroxychloroquine to HIV antivirals to psoriasis or hepatitis drugs, to recycling old molecules. I will.

From the development of candidate and animal trials to the three-stage human trial, it usually takes four to six years for a vaccine to be launched. It takes 10 years to bring a drug to market. Scientists screen hundreds of compounds, identify candidates and develop them for 2-3 years before starting clinical trials. Only one or two out of ten candidates reach the human clinical trial stage.

But these are not times. Time is important to master Covid-19. Successful or negative efforts by life sciences companies around the world ensured that 10 of the 124 vaccine projects at Covid-19 will go into human clinical trials within 3 months.

Indian companies and laboratories will always be successful in any way, playing a key role in both the development and manufacture of these medicines and vaccines.

In India, many major companies such as Sun Pharma, Biocon, and Glenmark are trying to treat with known molecules or therapies. At least 12 Indian companies are also trying to develop vaccines-Mynvax, Neuberg Supratech, which is relatively unknown from well-known names such as Indian Serum Institute (SII), Zydus Cadila, Bharat Biotech, Indian Immunologicals, Hester Biosciences. In addition to many government-run institutes such as, Premas Biotech. The government says India is working on 30 projects from large companies, start-ups and academia. “There are at least eight candidate vaccines, four of which are relatively advanced. The US Scientific Research Institute is working on six candidate vaccines. Two to three of them are very promising “Empowered Group Chairman, Dr. VK Paul-I, also a member of NITI Aayog (health) told the media on May 28. “This is a very large pandemic, and it doesn’t make sense to say who comes first or second. There is plenty of room for those who go slowly and steadily.” Dr. Paul is where India is in competition I said when asked if I was standing.

Due to India’s generic drug development capabilities, the ability to manufacture finished drugs and vaccines cheaper than anyone, the numerous manufacturing bases in other countries, and marketing bases around the world, large pharmaceutical companies and new vaccine/drug developers can You need to join an Indian partner. It’s already happening.

Seeking partner

We will focus on SII, the most promising “Oxford vaccine” developed by the Jenner Institute at Oxford University and the Oxford Vaccine Group, the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer in quantity. Oxford Research Group relies on years of proven methods. The antigen was generated from an antigen containing the genetic material of the Covid-19 spike protein that causes chimpanzee infection from mild cold and replicates the human virus. The expert section initially doubted the test results in monkeys. However, the vaccine has been tested in 1,000 patients in the first two phases. Over 320 people were given doses. The results are promising.

The group was talking to several companies to produce a vaccine containing Indias SII, but US multinational AstraZeneca licensed the vaccine a few weeks ago. “AstraZeneca is in talks with the Serological Institute in India and other potential partners to increase production and distribution,” AstraZeneca is discussing. “Consultation with AstraZeneca is currently underway and we can comment once the contract is complete. In addition, we are working on multiple vaccine candidates in the US, UK and Europe and rely on one It is not.

The US Government Office of Advanced Biomedical Research and Development has given AstraZeneca $1 billion to develop, manufacture, and deliver vaccines. The Phase III trial will have 30,000 participants.

AstraZeneca is at great risk. It has signed manufacturing and supply contracts for the first 400 million doses and 1 billion doses, the first delivery starting in September 2020. Pascal Soriot, CEO of AstraZeneca, has more agreements and several parallel supply chains in the pipeline.

Apart from AstraZeneca, SII and US-based vaccine manufacturer Codagenix are also developing vaccines in preclinical animal trials. SII is also testing a recombinant Bacillus Calmette Guerlain (BCG) vaccine variant for containment of Covid-19.

A US-based late-stage vaccine manufacturer Novavax has a pre-candidate vaccine NVX-CoV2373 that is in human phase I trials in Australia. We received $388 million from the Alliance for Disease Control Innovation to further develop the vaccine. Novavax chose an easy way to make a vaccine if the candidate passed human trials. Last week, the company acquired SII unit Praha Vaccines in Bohumil, Czech Republic for a total cash transaction of $167 million. This can generate more than a billion doses per year, said Novavax President and CEO Stanley C. Elk. SII will help boost production at Bohumil by the end of the year. “After acquiring a plant in the Czech Republic (72 million euros in 2017), we invested $100 million to upgrade to a world-class facility that manufactures 1 billion doses of vaccine. Poonawala, who owns in India Said it decided to sell the factory to focus on its manufacturing efforts.

“At least 5 dozen or more of the largest Indian companies (such as Serum, Bharat Biotech, Zyda Scadilla, Indian Immunologicals, Biological E, Vodkalt, etc.) have world standard manufacturing capabilities and can supply to different regions of the world. Ms. Dr. RB Smart, Managing Director of Chairman Pharmaceutical Consultant Interlink. Five members of this group are trying to develop their own vaccine for Covid-19. Zydus Cadila, who developed India’s first tetravalent inactivated influenza vaccine VaxiFlu-4, is developing two unique Covid-19 vaccines. Bharat Biotech is also developing two vaccines at ICMR and overseas universities.

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Even if an Indian company is not the first to develop a Covid-19 vaccine, considering that developing a new vaccine is not easy, especially in developing countries, both expertise and the ability to produce a developed vaccine are needed. Is equipped. Make a unit.

It takes at least 45 years to commercialize a vaccine factory. India supplies over 60% of the 2.4 billion doses of vaccine needed for UNICEF’s global immunization program, or more than 1.25 billion doses. About 70% of the vaccines used worldwide are manufactured in India. SII alone produces more than 1.5 billion doses and supplies them to more than 150 countries. “We have low manufacturing costs and skilled people, but now we need to focus on development, technology and innovation, which requires government support,” says Adar Poonawala.

Transferred drug

Indian companies are also at the forefront of testing and manufacturing Covid-19 recycled drugs. Sun Pharma will test a drug called nafamostat mesylate on Covid-19 patients. Japan has been approved for the improvement of acute pancreatitis and small thrombosis in many Covid-19 deaths. “Nafamostat has shown promising results in studies conducted by three independent groups of scientists in Europe, Japan and South Korea, and believes in promising treatments,” said Sun Pharma Managing Director. Dilip Chambi said in a statement. Sun Pharma has developed an Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) and finished product in India using technology from Japanese pharmaceutical company Pola Pharma.

Glenmark is the first company to receive approval from the Indian drug regulatory agency to conduct a clinical trial of the antiviral drug favipiravir against Covid-19 in India, and is an inpatient with moderate symptoms of Covid. We are trying to combine the viral drugs favipiravir and umifenovir-19 India. Monica Tandon, Vice President and Head of Clinical Development at Glenmark Pharmaceuticals, said: “Combining safe antiviral drugs is an effective approach to quickly control early high viral load. Similarly, Biocon uses the drug device CytoSorb for blood purification to reduce respiratory failure. We are licensed to treat Covid-19 patients admitted to a confirmed or imminent intensive care unit, and are working on the psoriasis treatment alzumab to control Covid-19 infections. Gilead Sciences, Inc., licensed a new antiviral drug in development, Rendecibir, and decided to change it for Covid-19 patients, when three Indian partners (Cipla, Hetero Drugs, Jubilant Life Sciences) Has manufactured and supplied in 127 countries.

This is not all a coincidence. According to experts, India has over 150 US Food and Drug Administration approved plants, which are the best outside the United States. Most large Indian manufacturers have multiple factories, in addition to marketing structures for selling generics in almost every country. Indian companies, who are familiar with creating finished formulations, are also focusing on API development and the entire value chain of products that treat Covid-19. Best of all, Indian companies can make medicines that are 30-40% cheaper than what they cost in Western Europe. All this helps in the rapid manufacture and supply of Covid-19 solutions. “For the Indian pharmaceutical industry, it is a great opportunity to break out of this crisis as the world’s preferred sourcing hub. India, the world’s largest generic drug provider, has always been called the world’s pharmacy,” Umang Vohra said. He says. Cipla, Managing Director and Global CEO. Lupine’s Managing Director Nilesh Gupta shows that the Covid-19 crisis is of importance to the Indian pharmaceutical industry. “By focusing more on the safety of global drug supply, leveraging low cost bases, high throughput and quality standards, and the availability of the required skill sets, India’s generic major supplies more to the US and EU. We expect to benefit from doing so.”

However, excluding China, which offers 40% of global API requirements, is not easy. India is trying to catch up, but it will take years to reach the size of China’s API ecosystem. More than that, 5 of the 10 Covid-19 vaccines in human clinical trials come from China. Do they partner with Indian companies?

China doesn’t need India’s support in manufacturing, and given the current situation, Indian companies are predicting that China will be able to produce the Covid-19 vaccine if they withdraw from China, says Adar Poonawala. “We really want them to do this because we’re all in the race to save lives and make vaccines for as many people as possible,” he says. Whether it is the truth, India, China, or the United States, humanity’s previous purpose is to defeat the virus for survival.

Azuki