Journal
VACCINE
Volume 32, Issue 42, Pages 5496-5502Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2014.07.074
Keywords
Flublok (R); Insect cell; Recombinant HA; Influenza vaccine; Scale-up; Pandemic; H7N9
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- Federal (United States Government) funds from the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority [HHSO100200900106C]
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Multiple different hemagglutinin (HA) protein antigens have been reproducibly manufactured at the 650 L scale by Protein Sciences Corporation (PSC) based on an insect cell culture with baculovirus infection. Significantly, these HA protein antigens were produced by the same Universal Manufacturing process as described in the biological license application (BLA) for the first recombinant influenza vaccine approved by the FDA (Flublok (R)). The technology is uniquely designed so that a change in vaccine composition can be readily accommodated from one HA protein antigen to another one. Here we present a vaccine candidate to combat the recently emerged H7N9 virus as an example starting with the genetic sequence for the required HA, creation of the baculovirus and ending with purified protein antigen (or vaccine component) at the 10 L scale accomplished within 38 days under GMP conditions. The same process performance is being achieved at the 2 L, 10 L, 100 L, 650 L and 2500 L scale. An illustration is given of how the technology was transferred from the benchmark 650 L scale facility to a retrofitted microbial facility at the 2500 L scale within 100 days which includes the time for facility engineering changes. The successful development, technology transfer and scale-up of the Flublok (R) process has major implications for being ready to make vaccine rapidly on a worldwide scale as a defense against pandemic influenza. The technology described does not have the same vulnerability to mutations in the egg adapted strain, and resulting loss in vaccine efficacy, faced by egg based manufacture. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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