Establishment and operation of a Vaccine Pilot Plant

VRC/NIAID疫苗中试工厂是一个多用途设施，旨在根据美国食品和药物管理局（FDA）要求的现行良好生产规范（cGMP）生产用于人体临床试验的疫苗、生物制剂和佐剂。该设施由一个接收原材料的仓库、一个制造缓冲液和介质组件的中央工艺支持设施、一个生产活疫苗和治疗产品的生产套件、一个将产品灌装成小瓶以交付给诊所的灌装套件、一个测试疫苗产品的质量控制实验室、以及为工作人员和设备提供的配套办公室和实用空间组成。这些领域都协同工作，以制造可在人体中进行评估的临床试验材料。该设施的开发于2005年完成，并于2006年1月开始临床生产。制备了候选HIV疫苗和单克隆抗体、埃博拉疫苗、马尔堡疫苗、基孔古雅疫苗、H5N1/大流行性流感疫苗、通用流感疫苗、呼吸道合胞病毒疫苗、寨卡病毒疫苗的临床试验材料。正在进行的生产活动包括佐剂、艾滋病毒亚基和肽结合疫苗、下一代艾滋病毒单克隆抗体、通用流感多组分蛋白纳米颗粒疫苗和抗疟疾单克隆抗体。

The VRC/NIAID vaccine pilot plant is a multiuse facility designed to manufacture vaccines, biologicals, and adjuvants for human clinical trials according to current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) required by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The facility is composed of a warehouse to receive the raw materials, central process support facility to manufacture buffers and media components, manufacturing suites to produce active vaccine and therapeutic products, a filling suite to fill the product into vials for delivery to the clinic, Quality Control laboratories to test the vaccine product, and supporting office and utility space for staff and equipment. These areas all work in concert to manufacture clinical trial materials that can be evaluated in humans. Development of the facility was completed in 2005 and clinical manufacturing started in January 2006. Clinical trial materials for candidate HIV vaccines and monoclonal antibodies (mAb), Ebola vaccines, Marburg vaccines, Chikunguya vaccines, H5N1/ pandemic Influenza vaccines, universal influenza vaccines, Respiratory syncytial virus vaccines and Zika vaccines have been prepared. Ongoing manufacturing campaigns include an adjuvant, HIV subunit and peptide-conjugate vaccines, next-generation HIV mAbs, universal influenza multi-component protein nanoparticle vaccine, and monoclonal antibodies against Malaria.