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James S. McDonnell Foundation Announces New 2020 Grants for The 21st Century Science Initiative Awards
February 1, 2021 GMT
ST. LOUIS (BUSINESS WIRE) Feb 1, 2021
The Officers and Directors of the James S. McDonnell Foundation today announced more than $6 million in grants in their ongoing program, the
21 st Century Science Initiative. Together with previously announced grants, the Foundation’s total 2020 commitment is more than $18.5M.
In 2020, JSMF inaugurated the
Opportunity Awards funding new research studying human behavior across the lifespan using more naturalistic designs and dynamic measures better to reflect our day-to-day behavior.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio - A new deep-learning model that can predict how human genes and medicines will interact has identified at least 10 compounds that may hold promise as treatments for COVID-19.
All but two of the drugs are still considered investigational and are being tested for effectiveness against hepatitis C, fungal disease, cancer and heart disease. The list also includes the approved drugs cyclosporine, an immunosuppressant that prevents transplant organ rejection, and anidulafungin, an antifungal agent.
The discovery was made by computer scientists, meaning much more work needs to be done before any of these medications would be confirmed as safe and effective treatments for people infected with SARS-CoV-2. But by using artificial intelligence to arrive at these options, the scientists have saved pharmaceutical and clinical researchers the time and money it would take to search for potential COVID-19 drugs on a piecemeal basis.
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo s penchant for micromanaging played a major role, according to experts.
The Democratic governor s response was the subject of a New York Times investigation published Monday.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo s micromanagement style and top-down approach to distributing the COVID-19 vaccine played a role in the bottleneck preventing more shots from going into arms, as well as nine of the Empire State s top health officials quitting their jobs.
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What s ahead this year?
Really, it s anybody s guess, but there are experts in the art of forecasting trends. They call themselves futurists.
International Business Times asked five futurists to weigh in on what life - holds post-pandemic. Here are their insights:
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