{"id":52717,"date":"2021-06-16T17:51:59","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T21:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/?p=52717"},"modified":"2023-06-06T18:10:36","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T22:10:36","slug":"triangle-doctors-scientists-help-produce-novavaxs-covid-19-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/triangle-doctors-scientists-help-produce-novavaxs-covid-19-vaccine\/","title":{"rendered":"Triangle Doctors, Scientists Help Produce Novavax\u2019s COVID-19 Vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbs17.com\/community\/health\/coronavirus\/president-trump-to-visit-nc-biotech-company-involved-in-covid-19-vaccine-efforts\/\">visit from then-President Donald Trump<\/a><\/strong>, FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies\u2019 Innovation Center in Morrisville announced it would manufacture components for Novavax\u2019s attempt at producing a COVID-19 vaccine. Eleven months later, clinical trials show it to be more than 90 percent effective.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/directory\/david-wohl-md\/\">David Wohl<\/a>, MD, professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases, discussed Novavax with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbs17.com\/community\/health\/coronavirus\/triangle-doctors-scientists-help-produce-novavaxs-covid-19-vaccine\/\">CBS-17<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is where they actually take a virus and give it some genetic information, put it inside of the cells from a moth, like the insect, a moth \u2013 use that cell to act as sort of a crop to make spiked proteins, collect those spiked proteins, assemble them together and then inject it,\u201d Wohl said.<\/p>\n<p>Watch or read the CBS-17 report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbs17.com\/community\/health\/coronavirus\/triangle-doctors-scientists-help-produce-novavaxs-covid-19-vaccine\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a visit from then-President Donald Trump, FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies\u2019 Innovation Center in Morrisville announced it would manufacture components for Novavax\u2019s attempt at producing a COVID-19 vaccine. 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David Wohl, MD, professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases, discussed Novavax &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/triangle-doctors-scientists-help-produce-novavaxs-covid-19-vaccine\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Triangle Doctors, Scientists Help Produce Novavax\u2019s COVID-19 Vaccine\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69419,"featured_media":50063,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[100,2],"tags":[630],"class_list":["post-52717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-infectious-diseases","category-news","tag-630","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Triangle Doctors, Scientists Help Produce Novavax\u2019s COVID-19 Vaccine | Department of Medicine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/triangle-doctors-scientists-help-produce-novavaxs-covid-19-vaccine\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Triangle Doctors, Scientists Help Produce Novavax\u2019s COVID-19 Vaccine | Department of Medicine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"With a visit from then-President Donald Trump, FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies\u2019 Innovation Center in Morrisville announced it would manufacture components for Novavax\u2019s attempt at producing a COVID-19 vaccine. 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