Mark Lowey

NGen joins $10-million effort to bolster manufacturing capacity for a COVID-19 vaccine

Mark Lowey
February 3, 2021

The NGen supercluster has awarded $27 million in funding for 12 advanced manufacturing projects that can supply critical health care products to combat COVID-19. The funding includes $5 million for Providence Therapeutics and partner Northern RNA to establish manufacturing capacity in Calgary for Providence's made-in-Canada vaccine.

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Organizations: federal Ministry of Health, federal Ministry of Innovation and Science, Government of Alberta, Government of Canada, Health Canada, Ministry of Alberta Economy Innovation and Jobs, Ministry of Alberta Health, Moderna, National Research Council of Canada, Next Generation Advanced Manufacturing Canada (NGen), Northern RNA, Pfizer-BioNTech, and Providence Therapeutics
People: Brad Sorenson, Doug Schweitzer, François-Philippe Champagne, Jayson Myers, Patty Hajdu, and Tyler Shandro
Topics: advanced manufacturing, biotechnology, COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccines, critical products for COVID-19, domestic COVID-19 vaccines, domestic supply chain, domestic vaccine manufacturing capacity, efforts to improve domestic vaccine manufacturing capacity, federal funding for innovation, federal response to COVID-19, global competition in vaccine development, health care, human clinical trials of COVID-19 vaccines, industry collaboration, messenger RNA COVID-19 vaccines, NRC Industrial Research Assistance program, Strategic Supply Challenge, and virology institutions

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