Alpha Lee: An Open Source COVID Moonshot
Out of the Crisis - A podcast by Eric Ries
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After seeing the impact of the SARS pandemic as a child in Hong Kong, Alpha Lee dedicated his life to science. Studying mathematics and biology at some of the most prestigious universities in the world, Alpha has now turned his attention to an area ripe for disruption, preclinical drug discovery.
Alpha had just arrived in the bay area for the startup program Y Combinator when the lockdowns for COVID starting. Having been through this before, Alpha knew what he needed to do. Alpha decided to use the technology he had been developing to find promising compounds to fight coronavirus and then open source it. Alpha received thousands of submissions and now the most promising of those are being developed in a lab in the UK. Alpha's message throughout all of this? Let's not waste the opportunity, this time.
Resources we discussed:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/covidmoonshot
https://covid19-hpc-consortium.org/projects/5e8be82df1a9290078584cf4
