I remember Chancellor John Sharp talking about the Biotechnological Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Grant bestowed upon Texas A&M by the Obama administration, and talk of a "Biotech Corridor" somewhere on West Campus.

IIRC, this facility - and two others like it in North Carolina and Maryland - was intended to assist with precisely such a scenario as we have with SARS-CoV-2 and CoViD-19.

As I research this online, I see references to a "Valley Research Corridor" and am wondering if this is the same thing.

Does anyone have any information about this facility, is it up and running, what are all of its intended purposes that we might see as we try to defeat this virus' harmful effect on our world.

Thanks and Gig 'em.

What little I know is that it was based on growing vaccines in a tobacco seedling model versus an egg model which Has the potential produce many more doses much faster than eggs. What I don't know is the progress they've made in getting to volume not just in doses but actual volume of vaccines in that time period. Basically, I don't know how experimental or proven and scalable it was when launched, the first stage and experiment in a series of stages to scale it to high volume production.