Thai Covid-19 experimental vaccine to proceed to human testing from April 2021
A Thai start-up developing a herbal Covid-19 vaccine has reported that they’re making good progress, with the candidate passing the first phase of testing.
ใบยาไฟโตฟาร์ม, a Thai firm developing a vaccine from plant leaves, is to sign an agreement to begin production for use in human trials. The State Enterprise Development Planning Subcommittee, says the firm is one of several Thai companies working on a vaccine to combat the virus.
The research team from จุลาลงกรณ์ University’s Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, whose vaccine has been developed from plant leaves, has reportedly passed tests on laboratory animals.
The Thai biotechnology firm Siam Bioscience has also signed a technology-transfer agreement with AstraZeneca-Oxford University to start production…
