Researchers from countries across the globe are developing more than 200 experimental coronavirus vaccines, according to the World Health Organization, 51 of which have entered human trials.
— Riley Griffin, Bloomberg
Dan Barouch, Chen Wei, Kizzmekia Corbett, Sarah Gilbert, and Ugur Sahin are the vanguard of the effort to develop a vaccine for SARS-CoV-2. No shot has been developed and approved in less than four years, so what they, fellow scientists, and the drug companies they’re working with have accomplished is significant: identifying the virus’s genetic sequence, designing new technologies, and starting late-stage clinical trials with tens of thousands of healthy participants.