{"id":134245,"date":"2022-01-18T12:22:17","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T20:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/uw-madison-researchers-lead-effort-to-create-a-universal-coronavirus-vaccine"},"modified":"2022-01-18T12:22:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T20:22:17","slug":"uw-madison-researchers-lead-effort-to-create-a-universal-coronavirus-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/uw-madison-researchers-lead-effort-to-create-a-universal-coronavirus-vaccine","title":{"rendered":"UW\u2013Madison researchers lead effort to create a universal coronavirus vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/uw-madison-researchers-lead-effort-to-create-a-universal-coronavirus-vaccine2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Viruses can be wily adapters, changing their identities to find new hosts and thwart efforts to stop them. That\u2019s why University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers and their collaborators are making progress toward developing universal vaccines against some the planet\u2019s most harmful pathogens, including the virus family responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Last fall, the National Institutes of Health announced it was investing in three teams working to develop a vaccine that would simultaneously work against a broad range of coronaviruses. Among them is a research collaboration, the Pan-Coronavirus Vaccine consortium, led by UW-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine Professor of Pathobiological Sciences Yoshihiro Kawaoka.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis pan-coronavirus vaccine is basically preparing for the future,\u201d Kawaoka says.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>If the world already had a pan-coronavirus vaccine in March 2020, it could have served as a mitigation tool until vaccines specific to SARS-CoV-2 could be developed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viruses can be wily adapters, changing their identities to find new hosts and thwart efforts to stop them. That\u2019s why University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers and their collaborators are making progress toward developing universal vaccines against some the planet\u2019s most harmful pathogens, including the virus family responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. Last fall, the National Institutes [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}