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JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES
卷 112, 期 3, 页码 640-647出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.xphs.2022.09.014
关键词
Global Health; Lipid Nanoparticles; mRNA; Vaccine; Vaccine delivery
The Pfizer and BioNTech teams collaborated to develop a safe and effective mRNA COVID-19 vaccine in a record time, thanks to global collaboration and parallel efforts. Their success was based on foundational science, clinical trials, continuous improvement, and large-scale manufacturing and delivery.
At the outset of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, it was clear that a vaccine would be crucial for global health efforts. The Pfizer and BioNTech teams came together in a race against the virus, working to design, test, manufacture, and distribute a safe and efficacious vaccine in record time for people around the world. Here, we provide backstory commentary from the pharmaceutical scientist perspective on the challenges and solutions encountered in the development of the Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA COVID-19 vaccine (BNT162b2; b2; Comirnaty((R)); tozinameran). We discuss the foundational science that led to the decision to use an mRNA-based approach. We also describe key challenges in the identification of an optimal vaccine candidate and testing in clinical trials, the continuous efforts to improve the vaccine formulation in response to changing global health priorities and facilitate vaccine accessibility, and how vast quantities of vaccine doses were manufactured and safely delivered to every corner of the globe, all without compromising quality, science, and safety. The key to successfully delivering a safe and efficacious vaccine within nine months was a result of extraordinary, real-time, parallel effort and across-the-board collaboration between stakeholders on a global scale. (c) 2022 American Pharmacists Association. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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