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Bharat Biotech adds ICMR as co-owner of Covid-19 vaccine patent

Hyderabad, June 22 (UNI) Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech International Limited (BBIL) was working on developing the covid-19 vaccine as a top priority to ensure product availability at the earliest.
The covid vaccine development at BBIL was faced with multiple challenges, and all organizations were in a rush to develop vaccines and file the appropriate patents, prior to any other entity or prior to any data being published in journals.
COVAXIN®, India's indigenous COVID-19 vaccine by Bharat Biotech is developed in collaboration with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) - National Institute of Virology (NIV).
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