May 5, 2020 - Professor Wei-Shou Hu's laboratory is collaborating with Assistant Professor Alon Herschhorn of the Department of Medicine to create a cell line that produce an engineered SPIKE protein of the SARS-COVID19 virus. Graduate students, Zion Lee, Min Lu, Thu Phan, and visiting scholar Qian Ye are involved in the effort. The cell line will be used to generate the protein for immunization and other studies and the cell line will be made available to other researchers.
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