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Bharat Biotech had recently received a nod for a clinical trial of its vaccine - Covaxin
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Along with the two Indian efforts, the world over, 11 out of 140 vaccine candidates have entered the human trial phase
On Thursday, CDSCO also approved Zydus Cadila's plasmid DNA vaccine candidate ZyCoV-D, developed at its Vaccine Technology Centre in Ahmedabad.
A total of 12 institutes have been asked by the ICMR to fast track clinical trials of the vaccine as it is being considered the topmost priority projects which are being monitored by the government
India reported nearly 21,000 coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, taking the total to 625,544, according to the Health Ministry.
Indigenously developed Bharat Biotech's vaccine candidate Covaxin is entering human trials on Wednesday.
The SARS-CoV-2 strain was isolated at National Institute of Virology (Pune), an institute under the ICMR, and transferred to Bharat Biotech.
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The vaccine completed standard pre-clinical studies, and an optimum immune response was elicited by the adjuvant vaccine in phase-1 trials in India
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The vaccine will be developed using the virus strain isolated at the ICMR's National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune, a statement said.
With vaccines of some firms already in animal trial phase, developers say that if all goes well, India could have a vaccine by next year
CoroFlu will build on the backbone of vaccine firm FluGen's flu vaccine candidate, a self-limiting version of the influenza virus that induces an immune response against the flu.
Hillchol was designed at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden and subsequently developed by Hilleman Labs
Target company is a single-product vaccine maker with an installed capacity of 15 million doses of anti-rabies vaccine a year; revenues were Rs 180 cr last year
Typbar TCV is a result of dedicated product development at Bharat Biotech since 2001