Takeda receives $38m grant to help eradicate polio

Takeda has received $38 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support global polio eradication in developing countries.

With this funding, Takeda will develop, license and supply at least 50 million doses per year of Sabin-strain inactivated poliovirus vaccine (sIPV) to more than 70 developing countries. The vaccine will be manufactured at Takeda’s facility in Hikari, Japan.

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