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Drug Development
Vir taps Samsung to produce coronavirus candidate
by Rick Mullin
April 18, 2020
| A version of this story appeared in
Volume 98, Issue 15
In a deal worth up to $362 million, Vir Biotechnology has tapped Samsung Biologics to provide commercial-scale production of a monoclonal antibody against the novel coronavirus. Vir hopes to begin Phase II clinical trials in the next 3–5 months. “We are taking proactive steps to reserve large-scale manufacturing capacity to be ready to move quickly with any of our antibody candidates that prove to be clinically safe and effective,” says Vir CEO George Scangos. Vir has a similar production deal with WuXi Biologics.
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Chemical & Engineering News
ISSN 0009-2347
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