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Out of the Crisis #13: Alpha Lee on remembering the 2003 SARS epidemic and his opensource COVID-19 Moonshot

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As Alpha explained, it's "not in any way tied to PostEra's commercial operations. They've collected and sorted thousands of possible compounds, and now have multiple drugs in development in a lab in the UK. As a child, Alpha Lee lived through the SARS epidemic in Hong Kong. Unfortunately, the rest of the world soon forgot about it.

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Out of the Crisis #10: HelixNano founder Hannu Rajaniemi on vaccines, suspending disbelief, and the power of stories

Startup Lessons Learned

Just five weeks after that they had animal data on immune responses to their first vaccine candidates. When co-founders Hannu Rajaniemi and Nikolai Eroshenko realized their work was applicable to a coronavirus vaccine, too, they changed direction immediately. It only took them a week to become fully committed to this new work.

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