Ep. 5 Pandemic preparedness: how to do open science in a closed world
As the UN General Assembly is taking place in New York this week, with pandemic preparedness high on the agenda, we sat down with Ed Griffen, medicinal chemist and technical director at MedChemica, Pascale Boulet, intellectual property lawyer and access leader at DNDi, and Michelle Childs, Policy Advocacy Director at DNDi, to discuss two pioneering open-science drug discovery initiatives: the COVID-Moonshot and the ASAP Discovery Consortium.
Both projects are working to discover and develop broad-spectrum antivirals against viruses of pandemic potential.
Along the way, they faced a key…
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