Finlay Institute

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| established = 1991

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| staff = 970 (2014)[https://scholarworks.uttyler.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1031&context=nursing_fac Cuba's Maternal-Child Health - Scholar Works at UT Tyler]

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| address = Avenida 21 No. 19810

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| city = Havana

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| country = Cuba

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The Finlay Institute ({{Langx|es|Instituto Finlay de Vacunas|lit=Finlay Vaccine Institute}}) is a Cuban organization that carries out medical research and mainly produces vaccines. It is named after the Cuban doctor Carlos Finlay, who was the first to hypothesize the involvement of a mosquito as a vector of yellow fever.{{cite journal |last1=Chaves-Carballo |first1=Enrique |title=Carlos Finlay and Yellow Fever: Triumph over Adversity |journal=Military Medicine |date=October 2005 |volume=170 |issue=10 |pages=881–885 |doi=10.7205/MILMED.170.10.881 |pmid=16435764|doi-access=free }}

In response to fight against COVID-19, Finlay Institute has developed the Soberana 02.{{cite journal |last1=Reardon |first1=Sara |title=Cuba's bet on home-grown COVID vaccines is paying off |journal=Nature |date=22 November 2021 |volume=600 |issue=7887 |pages=15–16 |language=en |doi=10.1038/d41586-021-03470-x|pmid=34811530 |bibcode=2021Natur.600...15R |s2cid=244491102 |doi-access=free }} In March 2021, Vicente Vérez, director of the Finlay Institute, announced a delay in the development of vaccines and indicated the start of vaccination of the Cuban population in July 2021.[https://www.14ymedio.com/cienciaytecnologia/Cuba-pospone-inicio-vacunacion-Soberana_0_3053694604.html Cuba pospone el inicio de la vacunación con Soberana] 14ymedio, 8 mars 2021