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dugan
https://endpts.com/ex-darpa-chief-regina-dugan-illumina-founder-jay-flatley-join-wellcome-trust-fund-to-tackle-global-healths-sputnik-moment/
In a locked-down world where vaccines offer the only hope for a way out of the Covid-19 crisis, it’s nearly impossible to imagine if RNA-based platforms — which broke records with a 60-day turnaround from time of sequence to first dosing in humans — aren’t around. But back in 2010, as the head of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Regina Dugan had a decision to make.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/
Regina E. Dugan is chief executive of Wellcome Leap, a nonprofit that seeks breakthroughs in human health.
Opinion by Regina E. Dugan
July 26, 2020 at 9:00 AM EDT
Regina E. Dugan is chief executive of Wellcome Leap, a nonprofit that seeks breakthroughs in human health. From 2009 to 2012, she served as director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
The global pandemic is a hinge in history. Hundreds of thousands of lives lost globally; trillions in economic damage. It is as if the 1918 flu and the 1929 crash happened in the same year. It is the kind of event that alters the course of history so much that we measure time by it: before the pandemic — and after. It is a Sputnik moment.
Humanity is no stranger to such moments. And though we cannot always choose the circumstances, we do get to choose how we respond. In 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, a beach-ball-size satellite that surprised the world — and changed it. Today, as the novel coronavirus circles the earth, we find ourselves with the rarest of opportunities: the chance not just to defeat a virus but also to spark one of the greatest periods of advancement in science and medical history. Just as Sputnik ignited the Space Age, so, too, could the coronavirus inspire a Health Age.