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Backed synthetic biology vaccine manufacturing platform Quantoom Biosciences for developing-country access
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The Gates Foundation provided early backing for Quantoom Biosciences — a Belgian company that developed a low-cost, compact mRNA manufacturing platform small enough to fit in a standard shipping container and operate at a fraction of the cost of conventional facilities. Quantoom's technology was designed specifically to enable low- and middle-income country manufacturers to produce mRNA vaccines independently, reducing dependence on imports from high-income countries. The Foundation's Grand Challenges program had previously supported Quantoom's parent company Univercells, and the 2021 backing scaled the technology toward commercial deployment.
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