I. Project background and construction conditions
Project background, ADIS, with a full name of Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, is a whole body disease caused by Human immunodeficiency virus and one of the most serious virus diseases that threatens the health and life of human beings in the 21st century. At present, great progress has been made in the latest compound medicine of anti-HIV, yet only capable of stabilizing or releasing the symptom of AIDS without eliminating the virus completely. Usually, there will be harmful side effects coming along, leaving the problems unsolved, such as the increasing anti-medicine capability of virus, etc. Besides, treatment charge is quite high, yet the quantity and effect are limited, which is not affordable for most patients. Therefore, the essential way to solve this social problem is to develop the vaccine of AIDS.
Huge human and material resources have been put into the prevention and treatment of AIDS internationally, among which investment on AIDS vaccine research by pharmaceutical companies is as high as USD1 billion annually. Since the clinic test of the fist AIDS vaccine of the world in 1987, there have been around over 30 vaccine species under clinic test, most of which are in Clinic Phase I or Clinic Phase II.
Construction conditions: the project is based on the medicine laboratory of biological technologies at the technology center of Hisun Pharmaceutical. The research platform has established expression system of molecule biology, microorganism protein and mammal cell, protein purification system, molecule operation of microorganism, and a middle test workshop of 2000 m2, equipped with cell tank 600L and zymolysis tank 1000L, the annual output is 0.3 million pieces of lyophilized preparation. The three research fields of recomposed protein medicine, nucleic acid vaccine medicine and monoclonal antibody medicine.
II. Project preparations and process
Hisun Pharmaceutical has independently established the R&D project of therapeutic AIDS vaccine. The project group has completed the pre-clinic effectiveness experiment of therapeutic AIDS vaccine, including the followings:
Research on table-style recomposed carrier of adenovirus.
Living carrier vaccine containing gene section of AIDS virus. (Ad5/35-HIV,MVA-HIV)
R&D of expansion, purification and preparation of therapeutic living carrier vaccine.
Pre-clinic medical effect experiment on animals for therapeutic living carrier vaccine.
III. Project construction scale and content
Project construction scale: with an estimated investment of USD3.15 million, the project will build a laboratory of therapeutic AIDS vaccines in accordance with the R&D standard, a middle-stage test workshop that meets GMP standard, and a supporting technique platform, with an effort to further carry on the R&D of therapeutic AIDS vaccines and research of key technologies, by cultivating a team of talented to form the functioning system standard management. The production scale of 2 million live carrier vaccines annually will be achieved.
Project construction content, pre-clinic safety experiment and application for clinic approval documents shall be conducted based on the experiment completion, mainly including the following,
GMP workshop will be established to supply samples of pre-clinic animal experiment and approval application.
Pre-clinic safety experiment on animal of therapeutic living carrier vaccine.
Optimization of technical condition for expansion cultivation of therapeutic living carrier vaccine.
Optimization of purification technical condition of therapeutic living carrier vaccine.
Quality research and analysis of solution and preparation of therapeutic living carrier vaccine.
Stable production of three batches of finished products.
IV. Project cooperation mode and content
The project is mainly planned to be jointly-funded, with negotiable investment proportion and foreign parties are estimated to provide capital or technology support.
V. Cooperative conditions offered by the Chinese party
The Chinese party mainly supplies basic content of current research and a certain amount of fixed asset investment, and takes charge of the project construction, etc.
VI. Introduction of the Chinese party
Zhejiang Hisun Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd (hereafter referred to as “the company”) is a state-owned enterprise established in 1956. In Feb., 1998, with the approval of Zhejiang Provincial Government, it became an incorporated company; in July, 2000, “Hai Zheng Yao Ye” A-shares were issued in the stock market; in 2005, the company was named as the national top 500 manufacturers; and in 2006, it was awarded as one of the first national batch of innovation experimental enterprises.
The company is equipped with an enterprise technology center verified by the state and a scientific research station of post doctorate authorized by Ministry of Personnel, with a construction area of 16438 m2 and 383 specialists of research, science and technology. There are R&D departments covering biological technology, microorganism, creative medicine, synthesis, preparation, modern TCM and so on, together with more than 50 unit laboratories, three middle test workshops, animal experiment center, analysis examination center, information center, etc. Among them, the medicine department of biological technology includes laboratory of gene protein, laboratory of enzyme project, laboratory of antibody medicine, GMP middle test workshop and inspection department, equipped with shaking bed, bio-chemical cultivation box, automatic control system of chemical interaction, bio-chemical reactor and separation equipment automatically controlled for experiments. The examination method is connected with the pharmacopoeia examination overseas by applying to internationally advanced analysis instruments and equipment, nuclear magnetic resonance instruments, X-diffraction instruments, liquid chromatography, gas chromatography, etc. The company has 1296 staff engaged in the field of science and technology, occupying 49.35% of the total workforce, 71 of which have master’s / doctor’s degree, and 10 foreign specialists, 5 doctors returned after overseas education. Around 10 people are maintained to work in the scientific research station of post doctorate.
VII. Project Contacts
Contact person:Zhu Kangqin
Tel:86-576-88827891,Fax:86-576-88827887
PC:318000
Address:No. 46, Waisha Road, Jiaojiang District, Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province