· CEPI to provide up to $4.98 USD million to Houston Methodist Research Institute-led consortium to use artificial intelligence for design of vaccines to fight diseases with pandemic potential.
· The project will support a consortium, led by HMRI, to design potential antigenic targets for up to 10 priority virus families with epidemic or pandemic potential. Laboratory-based tests will then be used to verify antigen designs for possible further development.
· Consortium will include The University of Texas, Austin, The University of Texas Medical Branch, J Craig Venter Research Institute, La Jolla Institute, and Argonne National Laboratory (University of Chicago).
CEPI, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, and the Houston Methodist Research Institute (HMRI), have today announced a partnership to combine cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) technology with established laboratory techniques to speed up development of future vaccines against novel viral threats (also known as Disease X).
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People all over the country are waiting in line, sleeves rolled up, to get one of the three Covid-19 vaccines, developed by Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson. Unfortunately, others aren t so eager.
The Kaiser Family Foundation reported in February that 22 percent of Americans still weren t ready for a jab. The gap between Americans who will and won t get the vaccine is shrinking, but it needs to shrink further, especially with troubling variants now circulating.
The only way to reach herd immunity is to get 80 to 85 percent or more of the population vaccinated.