Testing of the COVID-19 vaccine initially began in 2020 with the next round of human trials due in the spring. Developers say the benefit of tobacco is that it can be grown almost anywhere in the world at low cost.
When the resulting vaccine is injected into humans it stimulates antibodies which our bodies can use to fight the real virus in the future.Even though other COVID-19 vaccinations are already available, developers say it's important to continue the project for future health security.
The clinical trials are still ongoing so growing conditions in the Bangkok lab are tightly controlled and monitored, with researchers dressed in protective clothing.The facility at Chulalongkorn University is the first of its kind in Asia making tobacco-based vaccines for human use. "We can use it to produce other drugs. So we can use it to produce anti-cancer, anti-rabies, anti-venoms and those we will focus on more. [For example] Tropical diseases that normally multinational pharmaceutical companies might not be interested in," said Dr Taychakhoonavudh.
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