The Moroccan Foundation for Advanced Science, Innovation and Scientific Research plans to manufacture 10 thousand diagnostic kits for the Covid-19 virus before the end of this June
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The Director General of the Moroccan Foundation for Advanced Science, Innovation and Scientific Research (MAScIR), Nawal Chraibi, revealed today, Wednesday, in Rabat, that the Foundation plans to manufacture 10 thousand diagnostic kits for the Covid-19 virus before the end of this June.
Mrs. Chraibi stressed, during a press conference devoted to presenting the first diagnostic kit for the Covid-19 virus, 100 percent Moroccan designed by the institution's medical biotechnology laboratory, that “since last March 12, when the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a pandemic, the biotechnology team took Our medical initiative builds on the experience it has accumulated over the last ten years to develop a diagnostic kit for SARS-COV 2″.
After its presentation to the Medical Biotechnology Center, as an incubator structure for the research work of a team ten years ago, on two axes, namely the development of molecular diagnostic kits for some infectious and cancerous diseases in Morocco and Africa, as well as the development of a platform dedicated to similar biological drugs, Ms. Chraibi indicated that this new kit for diagnosing Covid 19, which was designed in record time, has been recognized “due to its uniqueness due to its ingredients, properties and sensitivity after being compared with the routine kits used in national reference laboratories”.
The Director General of the Foundation explained that “once the new kit was approved by our laboratory, it was the subject of clinical trials on a sample of 450 patients with Covid 19”, which showed complete matching and very high performance.
She indicated that at present, a goal of manufacturing 10 thousand sets has been set before the end of June 2020, and then proceeding towards greater production that covers national needs in this field.
For their part, researchers at the Medical Biotechnology Center of the MAScIR Foundation and members of the team in charge of designing the kit, Abdel-Azim Moumen, Zainab Qamisho, Iman Abdel-Allawi Maan, Hassan Ait Benhasso, Hisham El Hadi and Hassan Sefrioui expressed their 100 percent happiness with this Moroccan innovation, before explaining the stages that led To develop the “MAScIR SARS-COV 2” kit.
They added that “this kit required a two-month working period, and went through three main stages ...”, noting that once this test was developed it underwent a series of verifications in the biological and viral reference centers, at the national and international levels, especially those of the Royal Armed Forces and the Royal Gendarmerie. As well as the Pasteur Institute in Paris.
The Moroccan Foundation for Advanced Science, Innovation and Scientific Research, which was born in 2007, aims to promote and develop poles for research and development in Morocco that respond to the country's needs in advanced technologies, especially in the medical biology sector.
Given its mission and ambition to actively support innovation for the benefit of the national economic and industrial fabric, and thus contribute to the energy, food and health security of Morocco, MAScIR has qualified human resources and state-of-the-art equipment, which has enabled it, within twelve years, to register 180 patents. Invention with extensions on the regional and African levels, the production of 650 scientific articles published in prestigious scientific journals, and the implementation of more than a hundred projects and achievements of national and foreign industrialists, which indicates the maturity of the institution and its capabilities in scientific and applied research.
Source: MAP
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