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Tuesday, April 23, 2024 — Houston, TX

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Graham shows The Thresher a model of the coronavirus spike protein, which he was already studying prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. His work on stabilizing this protein and designing a vaccine allowed his lab to quickly finalize mRNA sequence for the SARS-CoV-2 virus spike protein in January 2020.