The Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization on the USask campus celebrated a major step in its goal to become Canada’s Centre for veterinary and Pandemic Research.
Construction is complete for the Vaccine Development Centre.
Director and CEO, Volker Gerdts explains that this means they can now go from discovery and testing of vaccines, to also going through the next steps of process development and manufacturing.
Basically, making it a one-stop shop.
Gerdts says the Vaccine Disease Centre, with it’s own in-house manufacturing facility, is one of only a few centres in the world which are able to make all of the various kinds of vaccines for both human and animal diseases.
He says it is integrated into Canada’s largest high containment facility, Intervac, for pathogens which need a higher level of containment.
Funding came from the city, the province and the federal government, along with corporate and individual donors.
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(with files from cjww)
