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Process Chemistry

Jenner Institute and Germany’s Merck scale up a COVID-19 vaccine

by Alex Scott
April 18, 2020 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 98, Issue 15

 

The University of Oxford’s Jenner Institute and Merck KGaA have developed a manufacturing process for the institute’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate, ChAdOx1 nCoV-19. Using technology developed by Merck, the partners have reduced the process development phase from 12 months to 2. A trial of the vaccine, which is based on an adenovirus vaccine vector and the SARS-Cov-2 spike protein, will start soon and the vaccine could be ready to roll out by the fall, Jenner says.

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