Innovations
Egg-based platform for design, development and manufacturing of COVID-19 countermeasures.
Avril Biopharma’s main focus is rapid development of diagnostic, vaccine and therapeutic products using bioinformatics to design these products and our AdCEV(TM) protein expression technology to produce them inexpensively in hen eggs.
We are using our platform to address the urgent public-…
COVID-19 TESTING - AI APPROACH
COVID-19 disease cause pulmonary infections, which could be observed by CT images of the lungs as well as chest X-ray images. Clinicians have been able to observe and diagnose similar infection such pneumonia using this approach. In fact asymptomatic breast cancer and diabetes testing can currently…
Design novel hemp composite PPEs and a novel ARV Drug to treat COVID-19 disease
The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has caused a number of deaths globally. In response to the pandemic we have used all our resources to assist by firstly utilizing computer based drug target interactions (DTI) predictions to identify FDA approved Drugs which binds to the active pocket of…
Development of Filtering facepiece respirators (FFR) filtering performance testing test rig
The present research focuses on developing a filter performance testing competency of filtering face-piece respirator’s (FFR) at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits). This activity is in response to the expected shortage of medical personal protective equipment (PPE) related to the spread of…