Bill Gates sent a letter to LG Chem, “Thank you for developing polio vaccine

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A letter from Microsoft founder Bill Gates, co-chairman of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, recently to Vice Chairman Shin Hak-cheol of LG Chem saying, “Thank you for being able to protect the health of children around the world with LG Chem’s polio vaccine’Eupolio’ Sent. The letter from President Gates was on the 13th. LG Chem (051910)It was published in the in-house digital newsletter.

In the letter, Chairman Gates congratulated the successful development of the polio vaccine (Sabin PV) and expressed gratitude for solving the children’s public health problem. “We are deeply grateful for our dedication to our common goal of solving polio disease and our efforts to provide polio vaccines to people in need worldwide,” he said. “Ufolio will supply at least 185 million doses over the next five years. “It will play a key role in eradicating polio infection as an important technology that can enlarge the disease.”

In addition, “Ufolio, which has been approved by the World Health Organization (WHO), is a very important milestone not only in solving the global public health problem of children, but also in the partnership between LG Chem and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. We look forward to continuing the development of polio vaccines.”

Vice Chairman Shin also sent a reply letter. Vice-Chairman Shin said, “This achievement was possible because of the support and cooperation of the Bill & Mullinda Gates Foundation,” and said, “Resolving polio disease around the world is based on LG Chem’s vision of’connecting science to human life for a better future.’ “It’s a great goal that I met.”

Chairman Bill Gates is engaged in various activities to promote public health through the foundation. Since 2017, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has provided a total of $576,000 (approximately 63 billion won) funding to LG Chem’s ufolio and six ufolio-based mixed vaccine projects. It has also supported SK Bioscience’s development of a corona vaccine and KT’s development of corona infection risk measurement technology based on movement lines.

At the end of December last year, LG Chem received PQ (Pre-Qualification) approval, a mandatory screening for the supply of vaccines to international aid organizations as the world’s first’Sabin IPV’ from the WHO. The dead vaccine is a vaccine that has undergone an additional process of chemically eliminating the pathogenicity of the virus using an attenuated virus (a virus with weakened toxicity). It is more safe than the existing live vaccine (a vaccine using a virus with weak toxicity).

A supply contract of 80 million dollars (about 87 billion won) was signed with UNICEF, an international relief organization, and more than 20% of the total supply of UNICEF will be supplied. Starting next month, it will be supplied to more than 70 countries around the world, mainly in the Middle East, Africa, and Southeast Asia.