LANGENFELD (Yosefardi) – German biotechnology company, ARTES GmbH, has joined forces with state-owned pharmaceutical company PT Bio Farma to develop and manufacture of VLP based vaccine.
ARTES is specialized in cell line and process development of VLP based vaccines as well as in technology transfer for pharmaceutically relevant production processes whereas Bio Farma is involved in the manufacturing of vaccines, serum and other biological products for the Indonesian domestic and international markets.
Under this commitment a first agreement for VLP based vaccine technology transfer was signed on 1 July in Bandung, West Java.
“We are more than confident, that we along with Bio Farma will develop vaccines highly relevant for the Indonesian and neighboring markets. We expect that especially developments based on our Metavax® technology will contribute to Bio Farma´s vaccine portfolio”, Dr. Michael Piontek, founder and managing director of ARTES Biotechnology.
Metavax® is a patent protected VLP technology, based on modifications to duck hepatitis B virus. The approach elicits a highly potent immune response and therefore a broader protection than the currently available VLP approaches. ARTES´ Metavax® platform is suitable for the development and production of safe and cost-effective vaccines.
By Hatman Bintang