John Bamforth on open innovation and READDI (Rapidly Emerging Antiviral Drug Discovery Initiative)

04/08/2020 18 min
John Bamforth on open innovation and READDI (Rapidly Emerging Antiviral Drug Discovery Initiative)

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John Bamforth, director, Eshelman Institute for Innovation, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, on what it takes to bring the world's top pharmaceutical researchers and industry leaders in an open-science partnership to ensure we're ready for the next pandemic, the Rapidly Emerging Antiviral Drug Discovery Initiative (READDI).

"No one would have wished, of course, for COVID-19 to have become what it is. But in another sense, it really has galvanized people to think in a more collaborative way in order to get these global problems solved."

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