{"id":52847,"date":"2020-12-06T04:25:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T20:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/?p=169402"},"modified":"2020-12-06T04:25:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T20:25:00","slug":"adar-poonawalla-of-serum-institute-among-6-named-asians-of-the-year-singapore-daily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/2020\/12\/06\/adar-poonawalla-of-serum-institute-among-6-named-asians-of-the-year-singapore-daily\/","title":{"rendered":"Adar Poonawalla Of Serum Institute Among 6 Named \u2018Asians Of The Year\u2019 :Singapore Daily"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/\" title=\"MediaIntel.Asia provides Media Intelligence and Media Monitoring in Asia\" ><img src=\"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/mediaintelasia-logo-blackyellow-400x300-1.png\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Adar Adar Poonawalla, the chief executive of the world\u2019s largest vaccine Maker Serum Institute of India, is among six people named\u201dAsians of the Year\u201d by Singapore\u2019s leading daily, The Straits Times for their work in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.<br \/>\nPune-based Serum Institute of India (SII) has collaborated with the University of Oxford and the British-Swedish pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca for making the COVID-19 vaccine,\u201dCovidshield\u201d, and is running trials in India.<br \/>\nThe other five named in the record are Chinese researcher Zhang Yongzhen , who led the team that mapped and published on the internet the first complete genome of Sars-CoV-2, the virus which sparked the pandemic, China\u2019s Major-General Chen Wei, Japan\u2019s Dr Ryuichi Morishita and Singapore\u2019s Professor Ooi Eng Eong, that are among those in the forefront of developing vaccines against the virus, and South Korean businessman Seo Jung-jin whose firm will enable the manufacturing and dispensing of the vaccines and other COVID-19 treatments to the world.<br \/>\nCollectively referred to as\u201dthe virus busters\u201d, they are heroes of a kind, having dedicated themselves to the pressing cause of resolving the coronavirus pandemic, each in their own capacity, the daily said.<\/p>\n<p>This data comes from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/\" title=\"MediaIntel.Asia provides Media Intelligence and Media Monitoring in Asia\" >MediaIntel.Asia's Media Intelligence and Media Monitoring Platform<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adar Adar Poonawalla, the chief executive of the world\u2019s largest vaccine Maker Serum Institute of India, is among six people named\u201dAsians of the Year\u201d by Singapore\u2019s leading daily, The Straits Times for their work in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.<br \/>\nPu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":253,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[325,931,4,1607,194,494,615,1542,334],"tags":[8493,3472,10323,10324,8948,10328,1859,10380,2491,7035],"class_list":["post-52847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-india","category-internet","category-manufacturing","category-news-chinese-law","category-pharmaceutical","category-south-korea","category-technology","category-university","tag-britain","tag-chinese","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-genome","tag-pandemic","tag-singapore","tag-singapore-general-news","tag-sweden","tag-vaccine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52847"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52848,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52847\/revisions\/52848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}