The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative recently awarded a $433,000 grant to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) for laboratory equipment that will accelerate research to address the COVID-19 pandemic, potentially saving lives. The equipment will go to the lab of Ralph Baric, PhD, William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of epidemiology at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. Researchers in the Baric Lab are on the forefront of developing COVID-19 treatments. This grant represents a new collaboration between the West Coast philanthropic organization CZI and UNC in search of a global solution to the pandemic.
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https://sph.unc.edu/sph-news/grant-arms-unc-chapel-hill-with-technology-to-accelerate-covid-19-research/.
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