People Think I’m Crazy
Airlangga University’ Merah Putih vaccine research team led by Prof. Fedik Abdul Rantam has been making rapid headway in the development of the country’s own Covid vaccine together with Biotis Pharmaceutical Indonesia. The vaccine is set to enter the first phase of the human clinical trial in the fourth week of October.
Mahardika Satria Hadi
October 4, 2021
IN the midst of skyrocketing Covid-19 cases in June till August, Fedik Abdul Rantam, the leader of the Merah Putih vaccine research team from the Airlangga University (Unair) was busy traveling back and forth between Surabaya in East Java, and Biotis Pharmaceuticals’ head office in Gunung Sindur, Bogor, West Java. Biotis, Unair’s partner in the vaccine development, had just set up a biosafety level 3 (BSL-3) laboratory to conduct the
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