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DARPA Awards Moderna a Grant for Up to $25M to Develop mRNA Therapeutics (2013)

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Re: DARPA Awards Moderna a Grant for Up to $25M to Develop mRNA Therapeutics (2013)

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> Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

> make antibody-producing drugs to protect against a wide range of known and unknown emerging infectious diseases and engineered biological threats

This is amazing. I need to follow their other grants now to see what they’re looking at

Re: DARPA Awards Moderna a Grant for Up to $25M to Develop mRNA Therapeutics (2013)

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> Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) > make antibody-producing drugs to protect against a wide range of known and unknown emerging infectious diseases and engineered biological threats This is amazing. I need to follow their other grants now to see what they’re looking at

These folks invented the internet!

Re: DARPA Awards Moderna a Grant for Up to $25M to Develop mRNA Therapeutics (2013)

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> Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) > make antibody-producing drugs to protect against a wide range of known and unknown emerging infectious diseases and engineered biological threats This is amazing. I need to follow their other grants now to see what they’re looking at

Enjoy!

https://www.darpa.mil/work-with-us/opportunities

Re: DARPA Awards Moderna a Grant for Up to $25M to Develop mRNA Therapeutics (2013)

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post #4

This is why tax avoidance is a bad thing. Governments can accelerate innovation with stimulations like this.

Looks like DARPA's budget is about 3.5 billion a year vs. the overall defense budget of something like 715 billion. I'm betting that a lot more people would feel ok about paying taxes if more of it was going towards these types of projects rather than empire building in far away parts of the world.

Re: DARPA Awards Moderna a Grant for Up to $25M to Develop mRNA Therapeutics (2013)

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post #5

its kinda impressive all the technologies DARPA/DOD has funded...would be interesting to see the fail/win rate for them.

Non-zero is all you need in this case, isn't it? :)

I wonder if it’s possible to calculate a rate of return on that.

How much worse off would we be now without mRNA vaccines?

I doubt anyone would be complaining about blood clots.

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