The Hyderabad-based Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) has announced the development of country’s first potential mRNA vaccine candidate to fight SARS-CoV-2. CCMB Director Dr Vinay Kumar N. informed that the indigenously developed mRNA vaccine candidate is undergoing pre-clinical studies to evaluate its efficacy to protect against live virus infection.
He said the mRNA vaccine candidate and the technology, developed by a team of researchers from the Atal Incubation Centre-CCMB (AIC-CCMB), is fully indigenous and devoid of any technology contributions from elsewhere.
