Jesse Erasmus

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Director of Virology at HDT Bio. Developing RNA platform for emerging infectious diseases. 🇿🇦🇰🇷

STAT did receive a comment — "attributable to the NIH" - that offered a defense of the funding decision. It signaled, however, a lack of clarity about what the project is aiming to achieve, saying vaccines made ising the platform "could provide broad, long-lasting protection against all influenza viral pathogens, including influenza and coronaviruses, with the added potential to block transmission and stop outbreaks at the source." Coronaviruses are not "influenza viral pathogens."
Graphical abstract of the published manuscript.
Figure from a publication showing a formulation-dependent protection of the upper airway of mice despite lack of detectable differences in serum neutralizing antibody titers.
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