: ‘I was worried sick I was going to fall short:’ Adar Poonawalla on manufacturing a Covid-19 vaccine #IndiaNEWS A five-minute phone call from a son to his father is where it all began.Adar Poonawalla

‘I was worried sick I was going to fall short:’ Adar Poonawalla on manufacturing a Covid-19 vaccine #IndiaNEWS
A five-minute phone call from a son to his father is where it all began.Adar Poonawalla was driving to work when he took the decision. His family’s collection of luxury cars, including a custom-fitted Mercedes Batmobile, a Rolls-Royce and a Ferrari 458 Speciale Aperta, of which there are fewer than 500 units around the world, had always made it to the glossies. But today the flamboyant businessman’s mind was elsewhere. It was the month of April 2020 and a statement from the Jenner Institute at Oxford University announced a partnership with pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca to develop a Covid vaccine. Poonawalla knew Adrian Hill, the institute’s director, because of their earlier collaboration on the malaria vaccine. He felt the Serum Institute, the world’s largest vaccine maker, could not sit this one out, despite the inherent risks. But he needed the approval of his father, Cyrus. The Jenner Institute was named after Edward Jenner, the eighth of nine children born to a British vicar, and who was inoculated for smallpox as a child at school. The side effects would have a lifelong impact on Jenner’s health. Eventually, he would be the scientist who would reimagine the modern smallpox vaccine by experimenting with cowpox, a mild viral infection...Read more

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