India: Gates Foundation offers Serum Institute $150m funding for 2 vaccines

India: Gates Foundation offers Serum Institute $150m funding for 2 vaccines

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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will provide at-risk funding of $150 million to support Serum Institute of India’s manufacturing of two promising vaccines by University of Oxford and Novavax under the condition that the Pune-based firm prices the two vaccines at a maximum of $3 per dose.

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