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Why efforts to make better, more universal coronavirus vaccines are struggling

Science, July 27, 2022

July 27, 2022

Why efforts to make better, more universal coronavirus vaccines are struggling

NIAID only funds two investigator-initiated grants for pancoronavirus vaccine research. One went to Lbashir BenMohamed, an immunologist [and cellular and molecular immunology professor] at the University of California, Irvine, who has a 5-year, $3.6 million grant and had hoped to enter clinical trials this year. … He now is looking at 2023—if his team can overcome another challenge.