Biology-informed design

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The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has shed light on the gravity of our current healthcare situation - there are significant gaps in global pandemic preparedness. Although wide-scale measures like  social distancing reduces the mortality caused by a pandemic, these protocols are not always followed, and can cause social and economic havoc. VPRE is our solution to mitigate the consequences of this and future pandemics. Using our software tool to inform more effective vaccine development, we can protect both individual livelihoods and humanity as a whole.

Being able to predict viral evolution gives us a head start in vaccine development. mRNA vaccines are a new advancement, but already the data suggests that they are just as or more effective than traditional vaccines, and cheaper and faster to produce. We envision a future in which virus populations are monitored and used to train VPRE's predictive software, and in which VPRE could warn and guide vaccine development against dangerous strains that are likely to arise. See the society page for more information.