Podcast: Afrigen Chief On mRNA Vaccine Candidate, IP Hoops, Market-Shaping Efforts

Petro Terblanche, managing director of Afrigen Biologics, talks to Scrip about a range of critical issues pertaining to the mRNA COVID-19 vaccine candidate being progressed under the wider WHO-backed technology hub initiative in South Africa and which is based on publicly-available Moderna data. Various tools and approaches are on hand to tackle the labyrinth of patents involved, though the hub, the executive underscores, will not infringe intellectual property rights.