Serum Institute of India, the largest vaccine manufacturer in the world, has been chosen by Oxford and its partner AstraZeneca to manufacture the vaccine once it gets ready.
Pune's Serum Institute of India is placing its bets on the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine candidate AZD1222
India, which has a population over four times as big as the US', has conducted 14,381,303 tests in total, or just 10,175 tests per 1 million people
From clinicians to pathology experts, doctors in the country feel the Oxford trials have been the 'most transparent' one by far
Study shows the vaccine is safe, but it is still too soon to know if it can stop people from being infected
The preliminary results of the phase 1-2 trial, published in The Lancet journal, involved 1,107 healthy adults, and found that the vaccine induced an immune response both via antibodies and T-cells
Deals follow a previously announced agreement with AstraZeneca for the firm to produce 100 million doses of its potential vaccine being developed in partnership with the University of Oxford
Most players that Business Standard spoke to said they would be concentrating on their own vaccine candidates or the current tie-ups that they have
Blood samples taken from a group of UK volunteers given a dose of the vaccine showed that it stimulated the body to produce both antibodies and killer T-cells
AstraZeneca's experimental vaccine is probably the world's leading candidate and most advanced in terms of development, the World Health Organization's chief scientist said in June
Lakshmi Mittal said, "This year has been a wake-up call to the world to be better prepared for pandemics, which, as we have all experienced, can cause massive social and economic disruption."
West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee has received an invitation to speak at The Oxford Union Debate next year
On Thursday, CDSCO also approved Zydus Cadila's plasmid DNA vaccine candidate ZyCoV-D, developed at its Vaccine Technology Centre in Ahmedabad.
The Brazilian Ministry of Health announced an agreement with the UK to acquire technology to locally produce a Covid-19 vaccine currently being developed by the Oxford University and AstraZeneca
Imperial College London's vaccine candidate is being developed and trialled with the help of more than £41 million in funding from the UK government and a further £5 million in philanthropic donations
The preliminary trial was conducted over random 2,100 hospitalised Covid-19 patients, and about 4,300 hospitalized Covid-19 patients who were randomized to receive the usual standard of care
Chandrabali Datta, who was born in Kolkata, works in the Clinical Biomanufacturing Facility at the Oxford University's Jenner Institute
The University of Oxford last week announced that the advance human trial of the vaccine will involve up to 10,260 volunteers across the UK
The first phase of the trial began last month with 1,000 healthy adults aged 55 and under as volunteers.
The vaccine's failure to prevent the virus from attacking the rhesus macaque is a setback and kills the hope of treating humans