RMB 500 Million Fights against SARS |
2004-06-13 15:07 |
China Bioproducts Corporation has recently decided to make an investment of RMB 500 million in its major S&T research activities involving bio — safe labs and the construction of bio — product manufacturing lines for SARS vaccines, flu vaccines, genetically reconstructed interferon, and blood products. So far a start - up fund of RMB 50 million for the phase I project has been committed to the pre — construction phase. Before this development, the corporation had been contracted to work with a number of national research projects such as "human— based specific immunity proteins against the SARS virus", "animal — based anti—SARS virus serum" and SARS vaccination. The corporation had also begun its own S&T research initiatives on SARS prevention and treatment by investing RMB 10 million in developing diagnostic agents, anti—SARS vaccines, specific immunity blood, anti — SARS serums, and protein enzymes. |