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Kawaoka tells ScienceInsider that he didn’t seek to renew the H5N1 project, part of a grant he first won 15 years ago, because he didn’t think the work would be competitive. “With limited resources and pressing societal needs, my research team has shifted to focusing on vaccine development,” he wrote in an email. He now heads a $13.6 million NIH-funded effort to develop pancoronavirus vaccines.
https://www.science.org/content/article/united-states-has-stopped-funding-virus-research-it-defines-risky

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