VAV Lifesciences to supply key COVID vaccine ingredient to Pfizer, Moderna. Biopharmaceutical firm VAV Lifesciences has signed an agreement to supply phospholipids, a crucial ingredient in the mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines, with an American contract development and manufacturing firm which makes vaccines for multinational pharma giants Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna. Mumbai-based VAV Lifesciences is the only domestic firm in the COVID-19 vaccine supply chain with this crucial ingredient. It can thus can play a vital role in the global mRNA-based vaccine supply chain, the company claimed in a statement. The deal will be executed through its subsidiary VAV Lipids, which has entered into the agreement with a US-based contract development and manufacturing organisation to manufacture and supply the synthetic phospholipids to be used to to make COVID-19 vaccines.
The US firm will use the lipids made by VAV to produce gene-based lipid nanoparticles on behalf of the brand owners -- Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna.
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