There is a little known drug development company named Isra Biological Private Limited Which has been making big waves lately. The bioscience company which is based near Kolhapur in Pune Maharashtra is testing a new drug which is set to become the first drug manufactured in India. COVID-19 treatment. While this may sound like an extraordinary statement, Isera Biologicals is making significant progress with this project. The drug she is developing could potentially be used to treat and treat mild to moderate COVID-19 infections in patients. The drug has come so far that the company is now moving on to human trials, with the aim of possibly making it available to the public by the end of the year.
To emphasize the importance of this enterprise, it should be noted that Serum Institute of India (SII) is the sponsor of this pharmaceutical project. The primary activity of Isera Biologicals is the manufacture of antiserum products for snakebite and rabies. Anti-venom appears to be the company’s largest product line. There are a total of 11 anti-venom serums listed on the company’s website, four of which are for export products. These antivenoms are a combination of snake and scorpion venom.
It is also using the same process for the development of an anti-COVID drug,” the drug project started as an idea to test whether we could use antibodies to COVID to help a patient. This was followed by pre-clinical studies, analysis of neutral values and animal studies,” its director Pratap Deshmukh told PTI.
iSERA Biologicals got the test license from Drugs Controller General of India in April 2020. Serum Institute of India supported him in June last year with the supply of antigens to develop an anti-Covid drug. Referring to the process of manufacturing the anti-Covid drug, Isera’s biological director said, “The antigens are given to horses, which develop antibodies, using which the drug is manufactured after the purification process.”
The company claimed that this is a tested process that has been used for more than a century in making anti-venom. Isera Biologicals said the company may be able to deliver the drug by the end of this year at a tenth of the cost charged by an alternative antibody cocktail available in the market developed by pharma major Roche.
The iSERA Biological Director further stated that “the polyclonal cocktail would be safer for patients than Roche’s monoclonal cocktail,” noted PTI. When the first batch of Roche’s antibody cocktails (Casrivimab and Imdevimab) arrived in India, a single dose (600 mg casirivimab and 600 mg imdevimab) cost Rs 59,750. Deshmukh said the company would buy the drug at 10th the price of Roche’s drug. can deliver.
This Maharashtra-based organic company specializes in diphtheria antitoxin in various forms, much like anti-venom. Two variations out of a total of five are listed as exported products. Finally, there is the anti-viral section. In that range, the company produces rabies anti-serum variations. The new ‘Covid-19 Anti-Serum’ is the only weird one in that category.
The pharma company also has a wide range of services to support its product range. It offers a wide range of relevant to the medical field. These include anti-body generation services, pharmacology studies, analytical testing, toxicology studies, VAT pathology testing, contract research, and even training programs.
However, despite being so biologically oriented, iCera is multifaceted in the sense that it does not cater to any one industry or market. In fact, it has targeted the pharmaceuticals sector, biotechnology and cosmetics. It has fully integrated ‘bench to manufacturing’ facilities, which enable this biotech unit to be capable of full scale manufacturing as well as produce quick turnaround, adaptive technology.
Having accomplished the first phase of its company’s goals, Isera has effectively set up a cGMP facility to manufacture antiserum products for India as well as for countries across Asia, the Middle East and even African countries . There is no doubt that the new COVID-19 drug will become a major export once finalized and all trials are completed.
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