Facilitated By

San Antonio Medical Foundation

SAPPT AWARDS $200,000 FOR COVID-19 VACCINE PROJECT

Southwest Research Institute

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, is one of the oldest and largest independent, nonprofit, applied research and development (R&D) organizations in the United States.

Principal Investigator(s)
Dr. Kenneth Carson
Collaborating Institutions
South Texas Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases
UT Health San Antonio
Texas Biomedical Research Institute
Funded by
San Antonio Partnership for Precision Therapeutics
Research Start Date
Status
Active

The San Antonio Partnership for Precision Therapeutics has awarded $200,000 for a collaborative study to develop a novel vaccine to combat COVID-19. Within days of the Stay Home/Work Safe directive issued by the City of San Antonio, the San Antonio Partnership for Precision Therapeutics (SAPPT) organized and issued a call for proposals to combat COVID-19. After a week, 17 proposals were received and one team was selected, a consortium of scientists from Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), Texas Biomedical Research Institute (Texas Biomed), The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) and UT Health San Antonio. The Vaccine Development Center of San Antonio, which promotes collaboration in vaccine research, will contribute 25% of the $200,000 award to reflect the same shared mission of collaborative research across the 4-institute consortium.

Collaborative Project
Drug Discovery
Infectious Disease