This is the mABxience plant located in the Buenos Aires town of Garín. An Argentine laboratory of Argentine capitals where monoclonal and biosimilar antibodies are manufactured for the treatment of oncological diseases, among others.
Health: how is the laboratory where the vaccine will be produced in Argentina
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The plant of the biotechnology company specialized in research and development was inaugurated on February 20 of this year. As Dr. Guillermo Capuya explained to the news channel, flu vaccines are made there, for example.
Regarding the treatment against Covid-19, the director of the plant, Lucas Filgueira Risso, explained that “The development of the vaccine was in the hands of the group from the University of Oxford, which later made an agreement with AstraZeneca to distribute it worldwide”.
“They chose our plant to do the manufacturing in Latin America. They send a technology transfer, they teach us to carry out the process and we manufacture it to scale ”, Filgueira Risso specified in dialogue with C5N.
