A new global pandemic therapeutics centre is to be established in Melbourne, financed by a record donation from an international businessman.
Key Points
- Canadian and New Zealand philanthropist Geoffrey Cumming has pledged hundreds of millions of dollars to ensure next time there’s a pandemic, the world is better prepared.
- Cumming Global Centre for Pandemic Therapeutics aims to develop what they call platform therapeutics; drugs that can rapidly be altered to treat any widescale emerging viruses.
- With enhanced computing technology the centre will be able to make effective treatments within months, instead of years.
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