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Gates, Wellcome Trust and Mastercard commit $125M to COVID-19 therapies

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March 10, 2020 10:05 PM UTC
Updated on Mar 25, 2020 at 7:12 PM UTC

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Wellcome Trust and Mastercard Tuesday announced that they will team up to invest up to $125 million to fund a COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator to speed the development of therapies for the coronavirus.

The accelerator will focus on short-term solutions by identifying opportunities to repurpose agents that could be deployed rapidly, and on longer-term approaches such as developing new investigational drugs and antibody-based therapies. ...