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# Shanghai Zerun Biotechnology
- URL: https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/shanghai-zerun-biotechnology/
- Published: 1999-01-02T23:59:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-01-03T23:38:06.000Z
- Author: Liam Sturgess
- Tags: Profiles, #docs, #organization

**Shanghai Zerun Biotechnology Co, Ltd.** is a Chinese biotechnology company based in Shanghai, China. It operates as a subsidiary of Walvax Biotechnology.

## Activities

The company has received three grants from the [Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Bill-Melinda-Gates-Foundation):

- September 2015: $5,003,336 to improve women's access to low-cost bivalent HPV vaccine in [GAVI](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Gavi-the-Vaccine-Alliance)\-supported countries[\[1\]](#fn1)
- October 2019: $2,505,923 to improve women's access to low-cost nonavalent HPV vaccine in GAVI-supported countries[\[2\]](#fn2)
- May 2020: $1,000,000 to support research and development for COVID-19 response[\[3\]](#fn3)

In July 2021, the [Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Coalition-for-Epidemic-Preparedness-Innovations) (CEPI) announced that it had partnered with Shanghai Zerun Biotechnology and its parent company, Walvax Biotech, to develop [COVID-19 vaccine](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/COVID-19-vaccine) candidates against both the original strain of SARS-CoV-2 and its newer variants.[\[4\]](#fn4) As of October 2022, CEPI had provided up to $25.1 million USD towards a candidate called 202-CoV, but had ceased further funding.[\[5\]](#fn5) The chimeric protein candidate remains in Phase I clinical trials.

## External links

- [Campfire Wiki](https://www.campfire.wiki/doku.php?id=pharmaceutical%5Fcompanies:shanghai%5Fzerun%5Fbiotechnology)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/shanghai-zerun-biotechnology/)
- [Website](http://www.zerunbio.com/en)

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1. *Shanghai Zerun Biotechnology Co., Ltd.* (2015, September). Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. <https://web.archive.org/web/20221101031710/https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/committed-grants/2015/09/opp1127764> [↩︎](#fnref1)
2. *Shanghai Zerun Biotechnology Co., Ltd.* (2019, October). Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. <https://web.archive.org/web/20221101031958/https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/committed-grants/2019/10/opp1210446> [↩︎](#fnref2)
3. *Shanghai Zerun Biotechnology Co., Ltd.* (2020, May). Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. <http://archive.today/2022.10.21-073052/https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/committed-grants/2020/05/inv006445> [↩︎](#fnref3)
4. *CEPI partners with Shanghai Zerun Biotech to develop COVID-19 variant vaccine.* (2021, July 21). CEPI. <https://web.archive.org/web/20220611060746/https://cepi.net/news%5Fcepi/cepi-partners-with-shanghai-zerun-biotech-to-develop-covid-19-variant-vaccine/> [↩︎](#fnref4)
5. *Who we are.* CEPI. Retrieved October 19, 2022, from <https://web.archive.org/web/20221019165747/https://cepi.net/about/whoweare/> [↩︎](#fnref5)