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As the saying goes, necessity is the mother of invention. So, how do you create your own COVID vaccine when you don't have access to the intellectual property? In this episode of The Global List, I travel to Cape Town, South Africa, to speak with Dr. Petro Terblanche, the Managing Director of Afrigen Biologics and Vaccines, which made history by creating the first-ever African COVID vaccine based on the publicly available sequence of Moderna's mRNA vaccine. Find out how Afrigen fused innovation, science and technology to forge this breakthrough and what's next.
By David Solomon BassiouniAs the saying goes, necessity is the mother of invention. So, how do you create your own COVID vaccine when you don't have access to the intellectual property? In this episode of The Global List, I travel to Cape Town, South Africa, to speak with Dr. Petro Terblanche, the Managing Director of Afrigen Biologics and Vaccines, which made history by creating the first-ever African COVID vaccine based on the publicly available sequence of Moderna's mRNA vaccine. Find out how Afrigen fused innovation, science and technology to forge this breakthrough and what's next.