The CSIRO has opened a new facility in Clayton to make vaccines quickly for clinical trials, which the organisation hopes will fill a missing link in Australia’s pandemic preparedness. | liammannix
The CSIRO has opened a new facility in Clayton to make vaccines quickly for clinical trials, which the organisation hopes will fill a missing link in Australia’s pandemic preparedness.
Australia has lacked a dedicated facility to take independent vaccine development teams from university bench to clinical trial, Nilsson said, forcing teams to go overseas.When COVID-19 emerged, researchers and industry had to scramble in Australia to manufacture vaccines for testing. The CSIRO quickly repurposed a tiny lab in Clayton, where 10 staff worked around the clock for weeks to scale up the University of Queensland’s COVID-19 vaccine.
The lab makes protein and viral vector vaccines – the technologies used in Novavax and AstraZeneca’s jabs. The vaccines are grown by vast armies of cells housed in huge steel vats known as bioreactors.
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