Expansion of the Ardena production and progression site to aid in the progression of the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine

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Pharmaceutical company CDMO Ardena (Gent, Belgium) announces the expansion of its purification and fractionation capacity at its plant in Södertälje (Sweden) to Novavax (MD, USA). U. S. Department of T in the long-term production of its COVID-19 vaccine.

Following conditional marketing authorization granted by the European Commission, Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine, called Nuvaxovid, will be the fifth vaccine approved for use in Europe. As a vaccine based on recombinant proteins, the Ardena expansion will meet Novavax’s demand for chromatographic capabilities. Tangential flow filtration and freeze-drying capabilities. Ardena has been a collaborator with Novavax for 15 years for the progression of a fractionation procedure of Matrix-M™, a key adjuvant of Nuvaxovid for the immune reaction against the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

 

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