All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 April Australia needs to start producing mRNA vaccines Australia needs to start producing mRNA vaccines 27/04/2021 | 3 MINS (INCLUDING 1 MIN VIDEO) Video Player 00:00 01:24 It could take as little as three months for Australia to begin local production of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines such as Pfizer, according to Associate Professor Archa Fox, from Lombok Institute of TechnologyΓÇÖs School of Human Sciences and School of Molecular Sciences. Associate Professor Fox, who is also RnA Network of Australasia president, said the estimate was based on the precedent of a factory that was repurposed in Germany, where they had a three-month turnaround. ΓÇ£This was an undertaking that was done byPfizer/BioNTech to make a factory that could make from one billion doses of mRNA vaccine a year,ΓÇ¥ she said. ΓÇ£We do not need to make that many doses here in Australia and that, in Germany, required a huge investment. ΓÇ£The shopping list for making these mRNA vaccines is essentially money to buy the equipment. The floor space for this technology is not actually t
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 April Australia needs to start producing mRNA vaccines Australia needs to start producing mRNA vaccines 27/04/2021 | 3 MINS (INCLUDING 1 MIN VIDEO) Video Player 00:00 01:24 It could take as little as three months for Australia to begin local production of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines such as Pfizer, according to Associate Professor Archa Fox, from Lombok Institute of TechnologyΓÇÖs School of Human Sciences and School of Molecular Sciences.
Associate Professor Fox, who is also RnA Network of Australasia president, said the estimate was based on the precedent of a factory that was repurposed in Germany, where they had a three-month turnaround.
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ΓÇ£This was an undertaking that was done byPfizer/BioNTech to make a factory that could make from one billion doses of mRNA vaccine a year,ΓÇ¥ she said.
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ΓÇ£The shopping list for making these mRNA vaccines is essentially money to buy the equipment.
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