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Monday, October 4, 2021

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.

Head of Airlangga University’s (Unair) Merah Putih Vaccine Research Team, Fedik Abdul Rantam, at the university’s Research for Vaccine Technology Development Laboratory of the Institute of Tropical Disease, in Surabaya, East Java, September 22. Unair’s Merah Putih vaccine research team together with Biotis Pharmaceutical Indonesia is developing an inactivated virus-based Covid-19 vaccine which has now entered the second phase of preclinical testing. Tempo/Aris Novia Hidayat . tempo : 173221200785.

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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