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Bharat Serums working on polyclonal antibody product for Covid-19 treatment

The company has invested Rs 100 cr in manufacturing capex in the last one year

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Sohini Das Mumbai
Mumbai-based biotech firm Bharat Serums and Vaccines (BSVL), is working on developing an in-house polyclonal antibody product for the treatment of Covid-19. If the trials are successful it would be the first such indigenously developed polyclonal antibodies product in India.

Speaking to Business Standard, Sanjiv Navangul, MD and CEO of BSVL, said that the spike protein of Sars-CoV-2 is used to develop antibody titers which are then extracted and purified to create the product. “We have done some neutralisation trials in the laboratory in India, and some studies in the US as well. We got excellent results,” Navangul said. Human

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