Bharat Biotech

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17°39′55″N 78°36′17″E / 17.6652°N 78.6047°E / 17.6652; 78.6047

Bharat Biotech International Limited
Company typePrivate Limited Company
IndustryBiotechnology
Founded1996; 28 years ago (1996)
FounderKrishna Ella
HeadquartersGenome Valley, Turakapally, Hyderabad
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Krishna Ella
(Chairman & MD)
Products
SubsidiariesChiron Behring Vaccines [3]
Websitewww.bharatbiotech.com

Bharat Biotech International Limited (BBIL) is an Indian multinational biotechnology company headquartered in the city of Hyderabad, India engaged in the drug discovery, drug development, manufacture of vaccines, bio-therapeutics, pharmaceuticals and health care products.[4]

Overview[edit]

Bharat Biotech has its manufacturing facility situated at Genome Valley, Hyderabad, India.[4] As of July 2020, the company has over 700 employees[5] and has a presence worldwide.[4]

The company has been responsible for developing an eco-friendly recombinant[6] and a naturally attenuated strain derived Rotavirus vaccine called ROTAVAC.[7][8] They were one of the first to develop vaccines for viral diseases like Chikungunya[9][10] and Zika.[11][12] The company also produces vaccines for Japanese Encephalitis.[13] Bharat Biotech has biosafety level 3 (BSL3) laboratories.[14]

COVID-19 vaccine development[edit]

In April 2020, the company announced that they have partnered with US-based company FluGen and University of Wisconsin-Madison to develop a COVID-19 vaccine.[15][16]

A 5ml vial of Covaxin

In May 2020, Indian Council of Medical Research's (ICMR's) National Institute of Virology approved and provided the virus strains for developing a fully indigenous COVID-19 vaccine.[17][18] On June 29, 2020, the company got permission to conduct Phase 1 and Phase 2 clinical trials in India for a developmental COVID-19 vaccine named Covaxin, from the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI), Government of India.[19][20][21][22] The Central Drugs Laboratory (CDL) at Kasauli in Himachal Pradesh has been engaged in testing experimental batches of Bharat Biotech's COVID-19 vaccine Covaxin on a priority basis.[23] A total of 12 sites were selected by the Indian Council for Medical Research for Phase I and II randomised, double-blind and placebo-controlled clinical trials of vaccine candidate.[24][25]

In September 2020, the company announced that it was going to manufacture the novel chimp-adenovirus, a single dose intranasal vaccine (codenamed BBV154) for COVID-19 being developed in collaboration with the American company Precision virologics[26] and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. It is currently undergoing clinical trials.[27][28] On October 12 2021, Bharat Biotech's Covaxin got approved for usage on children between 2 and 18 years of age. [29]

Attempted data theft[edit]

In March 2021, Reuters reported that Chinese state-backed cyber-espionage group Red Apollo targeted Bharat Biotech's intellectual property for exfiltration.[30]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

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