{"id":22370,"date":"2020-04-12T16:25:07","date_gmt":"2020-04-12T22:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/?p=64172"},"modified":"2020-04-12T16:25:07","modified_gmt":"2020-04-12T22:25:07","slug":"colorado-scientists-pivot-to-join-worldwide-pursuit-of-coronavirus-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/local-news\/colorado-scientists-pivot-to-join-worldwide-pursuit-of-coronavirus-vaccine\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado scientists pivot to join worldwide pursuit of coronavirus vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Allison Vilander, Assistant Professor of Microbiology Immunology and Pathology, works to develop a vaccine for the Covid-19 virus on March 31, 2020. <\/strong>
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Research already underway in Colorado when the coronavirus began its brutal march across the globe may provide a head start in finding a vaccine for the virus.<\/p>\n

Scientists at Colorado State University<\/a><\/i> who were investigating the human rotavirus, feline coronavirus and possible vaccines tapping methods used to prevent the transmission of disease through blood products are now focused on the new coronavirus.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was very easy for us to pivot and look at that virus and understand the similarities with what we were already doing,\u201d said Gregg Dean,head of CSU\u2019s Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology.<\/p>\n

Dean and his team had received a $3.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a vaccine for human rotavirus, which, like the coronavirus, targets mucous membranes. Dean, also a veterinarian, has a grant from the Morris Animal Foundation to find a vaccine for feline coronavirus.<\/p>\n

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