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This is exactly what's happening at Royalmount in Canada.
by BasinAndRange 6y ago
This is exactly what's happening at Royalmount in Canada.
- sudosysgen 6y agoYup, à biotech research lab is going to produce 2 million doses à month of the Novavax vaccine (which is essentially as effective as the mRNA ones).
- refurb 6y agohttps://nrc.canada.ca/en/covid-19-response-building-infrastructure https://nrc.canada.ca/en/covid-19-response-building-infrastr... Color me a little skeptical. This looks like a big GMP bioreactor facility. Once the vaccine is made, how does it get into vials? Fill and finish production lines are usually another massive complex. Are they going to transfer it offsite for packaging? And this facility won't be finished until July 2021. Then the tech transfer has to happen, trial runs completed, everything validated. They might start actual production at the end of 2021. Tech transfer of pharmaceutical processes is no joke. I've done it before.
- sudosysgen 6y agoThe facility is already mostly complete, I live close to it. The schedule is for actual construction, certification, and qualification to be completed by July - thus for it to be ready for production. I don't know if you've been there, but the facility is pretty massive. I don't think packaging will run into space concerns. There's actually a vaccine plant right next to it, which is dwarfed by the NRC facility (of course not all of it is dedicated to vaccine production)
- refurb 6y agoNot concerned about space, more expertise. Sterile fill and finish lines are incredibly expensive and complex. Plenty of big pharma manufacturers screw it up. It wouldn’t make any sense for the govt to invest in their own line. It would take them years to get it up and running. I assume they are outsourcing it.
- sudosysgen 6y agoSadly I don't have any information on that, but I assume if they did want to outsource given the ridiculous budget it should be feasible.