Government-funded scientists laid the groundwork for billion-dollar vaccines – News-Medical.Net

Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Nov 18 2020
When he started researching a troublesome childhood infection nearly four decades ago, virologist Dr. Barney Graham, then at Vanderbilt University, had no inkling his federally funded work might be key to deliverance from a global pandemic.
Yet nearly all the vaccines advancing toward possible FDA approval this fall or winter are based on a design developed by Graham and his colleagues, a concept that emerged from a scientific quest to understand a disastrous…

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