Leukocare and Sanofi Pasteur Jointly Work on Vaccine Stabilisation
Sanofi Pasteur and Leukocare will cooperate to evaluate Leukocare’s Stabilizing and Protecting Solutions platform for improving the shelf-life of certain vaccine formulations.
Leukocare, a specialist company for protein stabilisation and biological surface coating, has inked a co-operation deal with Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of Sanofi. Under the agreement, Sanofi Pasteur will explore Leukocare’s Stabilising and Protecting Solutions (SPS) platform technology to enhance the shelf-life of selected vaccine formulations.
Leukocare’s SPS technology is employed in the biopharmaceutical, medical device and diagnostics industries to enhance the shelf-life of proteins and to enable terminal sterilisation by irradiation or ethylene oxide.
Terminal sterilisation allows for a significant reduction in production costs by avoiding complex aseptic production and at the same time, improves product safety, as most sources of erro
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