NIH grants over $500M to create antivirals for future pandemics
As the US transitions away from Covid-19 vaccine science into more therapeutic work, the NIH has awarded $577 million to nine groups in an effort to drive antiviral development for Covid and a slew of other viruses.
The grants will create nine antiviral drug discovery (AViDD) centers, whose main goals are to do the preclinical discovery work for Covid-19 drugs and other viruses “with high potential to cause a pandemic in the future,” according to the NIH press release. The project will span five years, though the initial grant money only extends out to the first three.
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