Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, a leading science and technology company, has joined theDiViNe project, a European consortium of six companies to address the biggest challenges facing the development, manufacture and delivery of vaccines. The objective of the DiViNe project is to create an integrated, cost-effective purification program specifically tailored for vaccines that achieves higher yields while preserving product integrity. Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany’s specific focus will be on simplifying the process of vaccine purification that typically relies on affinity chromatography,…