![]() ![]() Agreeing clear and detailed processes with regulatory authorities and sites.Conducting due diligence with potential partners to build a global supply network that operates in a consistent way.Ensuring manufacturing sites are licensed and adhere to Good Manufacturing Practice.Processes to ensure consistency and quality of vaccine manufacture include: Pharmaceutical companies develop good a understanding of global supplier capabilities and may use local suppliers for manufacturing. How might consistency and quality be maintained when working with manufacturing partners? ![]() New ways of accelerating production and delivery to communities are continuously identified and implemented. Ultrafiltration ‘buffers’ the vaccine to control how acidic or alkaline it is.Īs the drug substance in production progresses to become the drug product that can be put into suitable containers and used, ‘fill and finish’ takes place to transport the vaccine in multi-dose vials packaged into cartons.Membrane chromatography allows the vaccine to bind to a surface to ensure only the product that is needed is left.This is achieved using special membranes with pores. Filtration – like sieving – removes unwanted residual products.What are the key production and manufacturing steps involved in creating vaccine on a large scale?Ĭonsidering viral vector vaccines as an example, once the required concentration of vaccine has been grown and extracted from the cells, to achieve a large volume of pure vaccine a series of key steps take place: filtration, membrane chromatography, and ultrafiltration. In the case of inactivated vaccines, an isolated strain of the virus is grown, for example in cells, allowing it to replicate, extracted using a purification technique and then inactivated, for instance by chemical exposure, to prevent it from being infectious.This can be purified and encapsulated in a fatty casing to allow it to enter cells. For mRNA vaccines, a genetic sequence is inserted into a carrier which can replicate itself, and put inside a reactor, where a reaction is triggered to synthesise the mRNA.When grown to the right concentration, a substance to break open these cells allows the vaccine (drug substance) to be released for further production. For viral vector vaccines, the vaccine is grown in cells that act like ‘mini-factories’ to create or ‘culture’ the vaccine quickly using bioreactors, specially designed containers that can hold a large volume of these cells.There are many different types of vaccine platforms, each having different production and manufacturing processes. Partnerships, alliances and recognition. ![]()
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