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title: "Racing Against COVID-19: Drug and Vaccine Development"
description: This webinar will discuss therapeutic solutions to COVID-19 and delve into the highs and lows of developing pandemic drugs and vaccines at lightning speed.
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The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 elicited a worldwide effort to discover new therapeutics and protective vaccines. Researchers are now accelerating the development of pandemic-relevant pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines at a record pace. This webinar will discuss therapeutic solutions to COVID-19 and delve into the highs and lows of developing pandemic drugs and vaccines at lightning speed.

**Topics to be covered**

- Sequence-based design of small molecules targeting RNA
- The rapid development of COVID-19 vaccines

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**Matthew D. Disney, PhD**

Professor

Department of Chemistry

Florida Campus

Scripps Research Institute

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**Stephen J. Thomas, MD**

Professor of Medicine

Chief, Infectious Disease Division 

Director, Institute for Global Health & Translational Science

SUNY Upstate Medical University

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