This is bad news.
When we meet him on Monday to talk about his book, the boss of the Institut Pasteur's vaccine innovation laboratory has just learned that the anti-Covid vaccine on which he has been working with his team for eleven months will not be developed by the American drug giant Merck.
They hoped it would come to market before or after the summer.
The disappointment is immense.
"
I did not sleep a night
», He admits.
Frédéric Tangy directs this nobelized service where Luc Montagnier and Françoise Barré-Sinoussi first described the AIDS virus in the 1980s. Years ago now, he had the idea of using the measles vaccine, known in the whole world.
The idea was to use it as a Trojan horse to transport the antigens of other viruses.
He has thus developed a vaccine against chikungunya, dengue, Zika and Lhasa fever.
Austrian Alliance
We do not change a formula that works.
So his team instilled a dose
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