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KY company developing coronavirus vaccine

By Jeremy Chisenhall and Janet Patton, Lexington Herald-Leader

A biopharmaceutical company in Kentucky is putting one of the state's strongest resources -- tobacco -- to good use. Kentucky BioProcessing, based in Owensboro, has joined the coronavirus vaccine race and is using tobacco to do it, according to an announcement from British American Tobacco, Kentucky BioProcessing's parent company. The vaccine is currently in pre-clinical testing.

Kentucky BioProcessing was also a major player in developing Ebola treatment. The company made the promising serum ZMapp.

More at kentucky.com




This story was posted on 2020-04-02 14:30:25
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Kentucky Bioprocessing in Owensboro



2020-04-02 - Owensboro, KY - Photo courtesy Kentucky.com/KPNS.
Tobacco plants at Kentucky Bioprocessing in Owensboro could be used to generate millions of doses of a vaccine a week, beginning in June, according to British American Tobacco, the parent company of the Kentucky facility.

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