Business View Magazine | August 2020

12 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE AUGUST 2020 Geneva headquarters shortly after the data was published in The Lancet. “In generating T-cell responses and generating neutralizing antibodies, this is a positive result. But again, there is a long way to go. We now need to move into larger-scale real-world trials.” He noted that once one of the vaccines is proven effective, the next challenge will be ensuring that there are enough doses to distribute globally. “CanSinoBIO has always been in a strategic partnership with Academician Chen’s research team and the Oxford University research team respectively. However, CanSinoBIO chose to cooperate with Chen’s research team in the early stage of COVID-19 vaccine development,” Yu said. “But it is undeniable that the cooperation between the Oxford team and AstraZeneca has potential advantages in the recruitment of volunteers for the Phase III clinical trial.” Although the vaccine developed by the Oxford team still lags behind CanSinoBIO, regarding the level of adenovirus vaccine production line, its developing progress is expected to be “accelerated” with the aid of huge funding and the support of the global vaccine distribution network, and eventually achieve large-scale production after the results of its Phase III clinical trial are revealed.