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Researchers on this year's SN 10: Scientists to Watch list are shaping our future and our understanding of ourselves.

Daniel Blanco-Melo has reconstructed two viral strains brought to the Americas with European colonizers in the 16th century.

Spotlight on Dr. Daniel Blanco-Melo. Dr. Blanco-Melo studies the biological mechanisms that animals have deployed throughout evolution to combat viral infections. He explores how changes in our antiviral strategies are driven by the constant struggle with past and current viral infections.

Spotlight on Dr. Daniel Blanco-Melo. Dr. Blanco-Melo studies the biological mechanisms that animals have deployed throughout evolution to combat viral infections. He explores how changes in our antiviral strategies are driven by the constant struggle with past and current viral infections.

 E-Mail A Wyss Institute-led collaboration spanning four research labs and hundreds of miles has used the Institute's organ-on-a-chip (Organ Chip) technology to identify the antimalarial drug amodiaquine as a potent inhibitor of infection with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. The Organ Chip-based drug testing ecosystem established by the collaboration greatly streamlines the process of evaluating the safety and efficacy of existing drugs for new medical applications, and provides a proof-of-concept for the use of Organ Chips to rapidly repurpose existing drugs for new medical app...